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11-letter words containing a, t, e, n, o

  • pentastylos — a pentastyle building, as a classical temple.
  • pentatonism — the use of a five-tone scale.
  • pentazocine — a synthetic narcotic analgesic, C 1 9 H 2 7 NO, used chiefly for the relief of moderate to severe pain.
  • pentecostal — of or relating to Pentecost, a Christian festival commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles.
  • percolation — the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
  • perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
  • perennation — the survival of a plant through the winter or dry season
  • perforation — a hole, or one of a series of holes, bored or punched through something, as those between individual postage stamps of a sheet to facilitate separation.
  • periodontal — of or relating to the periodontium.
  • periodontia — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
  • permutation — the act of permuting or permutating; alteration; transformation.
  • personalist — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
  • personation — to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
  • petalomania — the condition in which a flower has proportionately more petals than is normal
  • petitionary — of the nature of or expressing a petition.
  • petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • 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.
  • phonetician — a specialist in phonetics or in some aspect of phonetics.
  • phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
  • piano tuner — a person who tunes pianos and sometimes other keyboard instruments.
  • pinacotheca — a place where works of art are displayed or stored
  • 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.
  • plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • planetology — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • planogamete — a motile gamete.
  • plant louse — aphid.
  • planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
  • 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.
  • plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
  • 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.
  • pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
  • pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
  • point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
  • pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
  • poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
  • 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.
  • pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
  • ponderation — a weight
  • pontificate — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • port orange — a city in E Florida.
  • portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
  • portmanteau — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
  • postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
  • postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
  • potableness — the quality of being potable or drinkable
  • potamogeton — a plant of the Potamogeton genus of perennial aquatic plants, known also as pondweed
  • potato bean — groundnut (def 1).
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