11-letter words containing a, l, y, i
- peculiarity — a trait, manner, characteristic, or habit that is odd or unusual.
- pecuniarily — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- pentacyclic — having five rings of atoms
- pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
- perceivably — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- perennially — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
- perinatally — during the perinatal period; before birth
- personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- pervasively — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- phallically — in a phallic manner or in a manner that is suggestive of a phallus
- phenylamine — aniline.
- philography — the collecting of autographs, especially those of famous persons.
- phylacteric — of or relating to phylacteries
- phyllomania — the production of leaves in abnormal numbers or places.
- phyllotaxis — phyllotaxy.
- physicalise — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physicalism — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- physicalist — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- physicality — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
- physicalize — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- physiolatry — the worship of nature
- phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
- piacularity — the state of being piacular
- pictorially — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pilgarlicky — bald or growing bald
- pine family — the plant family Pinaceae, characterized by mostly evergreen, resinous trees having narrow, often needlelike leaves, male flowers in catkinlike clusters, and scaly female flowers that develop into fruit in the form of a woody cone, and including cedar (genus Cedrus), fir, hemlock, larch, pine, and spruce.
- pineal body — (formerly) the pineal gland.
- pink family — the plant family Caryophyllaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite leaves, usually swollen-jointed stems, flowers with petals notched at the tips, and fruit generally in the form of a many-seeded capsule, and including baby's-breath, carnation, chickweed, pink, and sweet william.
- piscatology — the art or science of fishing.
- placatingly — in a placating manner
- plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
- planigraphy — an x-ray photograph in which a given plane of the body is well defined and those above and below it purposely out of focus.
- plasmolysis — contraction of the protoplasm in a living cell when water is removed by exosmosis.
- platinotype — a process of printing positives in which a platinum salt is used, rather than the usual silver salts, in order to make a more permanent print.
- platycnemia — (in the shinbone) the state of being laterally flattened.
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
- play-acting — Play-acting is behaviour where someone pretends to have attitudes or feelings that they do not really have.
- playability — the quality or state of being playable: The sound and playability of vintage instruments depends on how well they are maintained. Poor graphics and counterintuitive controls negatively affected the playability of the video game.
- playstation — (games, hardware) The leading family of games consoles, from Sony Corporation consisting of the original Playstation (PS1) and the Playstation 2 (PS2). The basic Playstations consist of a small box containing the processor and a DVD reader, with video outputs to connect to a TV, sockets for two game controllers, and a socket for one or two memory cards. The PS2 also has USB sockets. The PS2 can run PS1 software because the PS2's I/O processor is the same as the PS1's CPU.
- playwriting — the art or technique of writing theatrical plays; the work or profession of a playwright.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
- policy loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company to a policyholder with the cash value of the policy serving as security.
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- politically — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- polling day — date of election voting
- polyactinal — possessing many rays
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.