11-letter words containing a, p, l, y
- pay a claim — If an insurer pays a claim, it pays money to a policyholder because a loss or risk occurs against which they were insured.
- payday loan — A payday loan is a small personal cash loan at a very high interest rate, secured by the borrower's next paycheck.
- payload bay — cargo bay.
- payroll tax — a tax levied against the amount of wages and salaries paid workers.
- peace lobby — a lobby for peace or the end of conflict
- pear psylla — a small jumping plant louse, Psylla pyricola, originally of Europe, that is a major pest of pears in the eastern U.S.
- pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
- pectinately — in a pectinate manner
- peculiarity — a trait, manner, characteristic, or habit that is odd or unusual.
- pecuniarily — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- pedal cycle — a cycle that is propelled by operating the pedals, as opposed to a motorcycle
- peely-wally — off colour; pale and ill-looking
- pelotherapy — the application of mud to the body for therapeutic purposes
- penalty box — an enclosed space adjacent to the rink for penalized players, the penalty timekeeper, the game timekeeper, and the official scorer.
- penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
- pentacyclic — having five rings of atoms
- pentadactyl — having five digits on each hand or foot.
- pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
- pentastylos — a pentastyle building, as a classical temple.
- perceivably — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- perennially — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
- perinatally — during the perinatal period; before birth
- permanently — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- perpetually — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- 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.
- phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
- 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.
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- phylacteric — of or relating to phylacteries
- phylloclade — a flattened stem or branch having the function of a leaf.
- phyllomania — the production of leaves in abnormal numbers or places.
- phylloplane — the surface of a leaf considered as a habitat, esp for microorganisms
- 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.