11-letter words containing a, n, c, e, s
- pencil case — container for writing implements
- pentecostal — of or relating to Pentecost, a Christian festival commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles.
- persian cat — a long-haired variety of the domestic cat, originally raised in Persia and Afghanistan.
- pescatarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pescetarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pet scanner — a tomographic imaging device that yields visual information about the ongoing activity of the brain: positron-emitting isotopes, incorporated into biologically important compounds, are injected intravenously or administered by inhalation, and the resultant gamma radiation is sensed by detectors and converted into computer-generated images of blood flow, oxygen utilization, glucose uptake, etc.
- phonematics — phonemics.
- phonetastic — (communications) A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
- pinnatisect — (of a leaf) divided in a pinnate manner.
- plane crash — an accident in which an aircraft hits land or water and is damaged or destroyed
- preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- prehispanic — Spanish.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- prosaicness — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- punicaceous — of or relating to the family Punicaceae, containing the pomegranates
- radicalness — of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference.
- ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
- reaccession — (of a position of power) the process of acceding again
- reactionism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- reactionist — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- reaganomics — the economic policies put forth by the administration of President Ronald Reagan, especially as emphasizing supply-side theory.
- reascension — the process or act of reascending
- reassurance — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- recalescent — a brightening exhibited by cooling iron as latent heat of transformation is liberated.
- recessional — of or relating to a recession of the clergy and choir after the service.
- reinsurance — the process or business of reinsuring.
- relandscape — to landscape again after a previous landscaping
- renaissance — the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
- resemblance — the state or fact of resembling; similarity.
- resin canal — a tubular, intercellular opening containing resin, often found in the wood and needles of gymnosperms
- resin-canal — a tube or duct in a woody stem or a leaf, especially in conifers, lined with glandular epithelium that secretes resins.
- resistencia — a city in NE Argentina, on the Paraná River.
- resuscitant — a person or thing that resuscitates
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- romanticise — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rush candle — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
- sacramental — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacred nine — the Muses.
- sanctioneer — a person who advocates the imposition of sanctions
- sanctuarize — to give sanctuary to
- sand castle — a small castlelike structure made of wet sand, as by children at a beach.
- sand-castle — a small castlelike structure made of wet sand, as by children at a beach.
- sandculture — the hydroponic cultivation of plants in sand.
- sansculotte — (originally) a revolutionary of the poorer class