11-letter words containing a, l, p, n, c
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lycanthropy — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- mantelpiece — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- mantlepiece — mantel.
- mimic panel — a panel simulating the geographical layout of a television studio, railway points system, traffic interchange, etc, in which small indicator lamps display the selected state of the lighting circuits, signalling, traffic lights, etc
- municipally — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- nailclipper — a small mechanical device for clipping the fingernails or toenails.
- narcoleptic — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- nazca plate — a tectonic division of the earth's crust, coincident with the suboceanic Peru Basin, and bounded on the north by the Cocos Plate, separated from the South American Plate by the Peru-Chile Trench, from the Pacific Plate by the East Pacific Rise, and from the Antarctic Plate by the Chile Rise.
- necrophilia — an erotic attraction to corpses.
- neoplatonic — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- neotropical — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising that part of the New World extending from the tropic of Cancer southward.
- nephritical — Alternative form of nephritic.
- non-optical — of, relating to, or applying optics or the principles of optics.
- non-typical — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- noncoplanar — not existing in the same plane
- nonphysical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
- nontropical — not located in or originating from the tropics, not having the characteristics of the tropics
- nuclear sap — karyolymph
- nucleoplasm — the protoplasm of the nucleus of a cell.
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- opalescence — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- pack animal — a mule, donkey, burro, or horse bred for vigor and hardiness and used for carrying heavy loads.
- pain clinic — a facility specializing in the treatment of pain
- palindromic — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- pallescence — the condition of being pallescent
- pan-islamic — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
- pancha sila — a standard recitation of Hinayanists, including repetitions of formulas and of vows to abstain from anger, lust, cowardice, malevolence, and to abstain from the desire for possessions and unwholesome pleasures.
- panegyrical — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- panhellenic — of or relating to all Greeks or to Panhellenism.
- panic alarm — an alarm that can be set off to alert others in the case of an emergency
- pantropical — living or growing throughout the tropics.
- parenchymal — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- paronychial — of or relating to paronychia
- patricianly — a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat.
- patriclinic — inherited from the father; more like the father than the mother
- patroclinic — inherited from the father; more like the father than the mother
- patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
- pearlescent — having an iridescent luster resembling that of pearl; nacreous: healthy skin with a pearlescent glow.
- pectinately — in a pectinate manner
- pecuniarily — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- pedunculate — having a peduncle.
- pencil beam — a cone-shaped radar beam.
- pencil case — container for writing implements
- pencil gate — any of a large number of narrow gates used for rapid distribution of metal in large castings.
- penicillate — having a penicil or penicils.
- penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
- penological — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.