11-letter words containing a, p, m
- patrolwoman — a policewoman who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
- paumgartner — Bernhard [bern-hahrt] /ˈbɛrn hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1887–1971, Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.
- 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.
- peacemaking — a person, group, or nation that tries to make peace, especially by reconciling parties who disagree, quarrel, or fight.
- peach melba — a dessert consisting of cooked peach halves served with vanilla ice cream and Melba sauce.
- peak demand — business: strong sales
- peanut worm — any small, unsegmented, marine worm of the phylum Sipuncula, that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body, giving the appearance of a peanut seed.
- peche melba — peach Melba.
- pedanticism — pedantry.
- pedobaptism — the baptism of infants.
- pelagianism — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
- pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
- pencil beam — a cone-shaped radar beam.
- pentamerous — consisting of or divided into five parts.
- pentamidine — an antiprotozoal substance, C 1 9 H 2 4 N 4 O 2 , used in the treatment of leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis, and pneumonia due to Pneumocystis carinii.
- pentastomid — tongue worm.
- pentatonism — the use of a five-tone scale.
- penultimate — next to the last: the penultimate scene of the play.
- pepper game — a pregame warm-up performed at a brisk rate, in which one batter bunts back balls tossed by fielders stationed a short distance away.
- perambulate — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
- performable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- performance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- pericardium — the membranous sac enclosing the heart.
- pericranium — the outer periosteum of the cranium.
- perma-press — permanent-press.
- permanently — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- permanganic — of or derived from permanganic acid.
- permeameter — an instrument for measuring magnetic permeability.
- permittance — the act of permitting or giving consent
- permutation — the act of permuting or permutating; alteration; transformation.
- peroxisomal — of or relating to a peroxisome; of the nature of a peroxisome
- personalism — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
- petalomania — the condition in which a flower has proportionately more petals than is normal
- petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
- 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).
- phantasmata — phantasm (defs 1, 2).
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- phariseeism — the principles and practices of the Pharisees.
- phenylamine — aniline.
- philomathic — relating to or enjoying the process of learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge
- phonematics — phonemics.
- photo album — bound book for photos
- photomosaic — mosaic (def 4).
- phrasemaker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
- phraseogram — a written symbol or combination of symbols, as in shorthand, used to represent a phrase.
- phyllomania — the production of leaves in abnormal numbers or places.
- 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.
- piano music — printed music intended to be played on the piano