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

  • 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.
  • pink salmon — a small Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, distinguished by its small scales and long anal fin and by the bright red spawning coloration of males, occurring from California to Alaska and in waters of Japan: fished commercially and for sport.
  • 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.
  • piston land — A piston land is a raised area of a piston between piston rings.
  • piston slap — the characteristic sound of a seriously worn piston in a cylinder (usually of the engine of a motor car)
  • 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.
  • pixellation — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
  • placatingly — in a placating manner
  • plain ascii — /playn-as'kee/ flat ASCII.
  • plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
  • plain tripe — the fatty, inner lining of the first stomach (the rumen) of a steer, calf, hog, or sheep, having a bland taste and used as a food, especially in the preparation of such dishes as haggis, head cheese, etc.
  • plain weave — the most common and tightest of basic weave structures in which the filling threads pass over and under successive warp threads and repeat the same pattern with alternate threads in the following row, producing a checkered surface.
  • plainstanes — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • planetarian — a staff member at a planetarium.
  • planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
  • 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.
  • planimetric — the measurement of plane areas.
  • planisphere — a map of half or more of the celestial sphere with a device for indicating the part of a given location visible at a given time.
  • plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
  • planuliform — resembling a planula
  • plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
  • platemaking — the act of making plates
  • platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • plebeianism — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
  • plebeianize — to make popular or vulgar
  • pleinairism — pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
  • pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
  • plumularian — a member of the genus Plumularia
  • plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
  • pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
  • point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
  • 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.
  • poll rating — a measurement of a politician's popularity among the electorate, obtained by canvassing a representative sample of people
  • pollination — the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma.
  • polling day — date of election voting
  • polyactinal — possessing many rays
  • polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
  • polylingual — pertaining to, expressed in, or using several languages; multilingual.
  • pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
  • portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
  • postcranial — located posterior to the head.
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