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11-letter words containing a, n, g, e

  • peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
  • penological — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
  • pentagonese — a style of language characterized by the use of euphemisms, technical jargon, acronyms, and circumlocutions, used especially by people working in the U.S. military establishment.
  • pentagonoid — like a pentagon in shape.
  • pentagynous — (of plants) belonging to the order Pentagynia, characterized by the presence of five styles or pistils
  • pentangular — having five angles and five sides; pentagonal.
  • peregrinate — to travel or journey, especially to walk on foot.
  • perigordian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an Upper Paleolithic cultural epoch in southern France, especially of the Périgord region.
  • permanganic — of or derived from permanganic acid.
  • persian rug — an Oriental rug made in Persia (Iran), having rich, soft colors in any of various intricate, often floral, patterns
  • phagedaenic — relating to or having the characteristics of phagedaena
  • phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • phase angle — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
  • pigeon hawk — merlin.
  • plane angle — an angle between two intersecting lines.
  • planet gear — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • planetology — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • planogamete — a motile gamete.
  • plantagenet — a member of the royal house that ruled England from the accession of Henry II in 1154 to the death of Richard III in 1485.
  • plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
  • plasmalogen — any of the class of phosphatides that contain an aldehyde of a fatty acid, found in heart and skeletal muscle, the brain, the liver, and in eggs.
  • plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
  • platemaking — the act of making plates
  • 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.
  • plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
  • pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
  • polar angle — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
  • pomegranate — a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.
  • pony league — a baseball league similar to a Little League and having teams whose players are from 13 to 14 years of age.
  • port orange — a city in E Florida.
  • postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
  • potamogeton — a plant of the Potamogeton genus of perennial aquatic plants, known also as pondweed
  • poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
  • pre-arrange — to arrange in advance or beforehand.
  • pre-bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • pre-hearing — the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
  • pre-warning — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • prearranged — to arrange in advance or beforehand.
  • preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
  • preen gland — uropygial gland.
  • pregenerate — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
  • prendergast — Maurice Brazil [braz-uh l] /ˈbræz əl/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, U.S. painter.
  • presagement — an omen
  • press agent — a person employed to promote the interests of an individual, organization, etc., by obtaining favorable publicity through advertisements, mentions in columns, and the like.
  • pretraining — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • price range — the highest and lowest price of a commodity, security, etc., over a given period of time.
  • primigenial — relating to an early stage of existence; primitive
  • prolegomena — a preliminary discussion; introductory essay, as prefatory matter in a book; a prologue.
  • prolongable — able to be lengthened
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