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11-letter words containing a, l, p, n, c

  • pentactinal — of or relating to a pentact
  • pentacyclic — having five rings of atoms
  • pentadactyl — having five digits on each hand or foot.
  • pentecostal — of or relating to Pentecost, a Christian festival commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles.
  • percolation — the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
  • pericentral — arranged around a centre
  • perinuclear — situated near or occurring around the nucleus.
  • phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
  • pilocarpine — an oil or crystalline alkaloid, C 1 1 H 1 6 N 2 O 2 , obtained from jaborandi, and used chiefly to produce sweating, promote the flow of saliva, contract the pupil of the eye, and for glaucoma.
  • pina colada — a tall mixed drink of rum, cream of coconut, pineapple juice, and ice usually frappéed in a blender.
  • pinch pleat — a narrow pleat that is usually part of a series at the top of curtains.
  • pink collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
  • pink-collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
  • pinot blanc — any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
  • pitch plane — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • placatingly — in a placating manner
  • plain ascii — /playn-as'kee/ flat ASCII.
  • plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
  • plane crash — an accident in which an aircraft hits land or water and is damaged or destroyed
  • planimetric — the measurement of plane areas.
  • planoconvex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
  • plantocracy — government by plantation owners.
  • platycnemia — (in the shinbone) the state of being laterally flattened.
  • play-acting — Play-acting is behaviour where someone pretends to have attitudes or feelings that they do not really have.
  • play-centre — a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play
  • plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
  • plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
  • plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
  • pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
  • policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
  • policy loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company to a policyholder with the cash value of the policy serving as security.
  • polyactinal — possessing many rays
  • polynuclear — having many nuclei.
  • polyvalence — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
  • pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
  • postcranial — located posterior to the head.
  • potvaliancy — brave only as a result of being drunk.
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
  • preclinical — of or relating to the period prior to the appearance of the symptoms.
  • precolonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
  • prepunctual — arriving before the appointed time
  • principally — chiefly; mainly.
  • proclaimant — someone who proclaims
  • proconsular — Roman History. an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul.
  • psychoanal. — psychoanalysis
  • publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • punctualist — a person who is concerned with points of conduct
  • punctuality — the quality or state of being punctual.
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