11-letter words containing c, a, l, e, n
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- panhellenic — of or relating to all Greeks or to Panhellenism.
- parenchymal — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
- pearlescent — having an iridescent luster resembling that of pearl; nacreous: healthy skin with a pearlescent glow.
- pectinately — in a pectinate manner
- pecuniarily — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- pedunculate — having a peduncle.
- pencil beam — a cone-shaped radar beam.
- pencil case — container for writing implements
- pencil gate — any of a large number of narrow gates used for rapid distribution of metal in large castings.
- penicillate — having a penicil or penicils.
- 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
- penological — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- pentactinal — of or relating to a pentact
- pentacyclic — having five rings of atoms
- pentadactyl — having five digits on each hand or foot.
- 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.
- pericentral — arranged around a centre
- perinuclear — situated near or occurring around the nucleus.
- phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
- pilocarpine — an oil or crystalline alkaloid, C 1 1 H 1 6 N 2 O 2 , obtained from jaborandi, and used chiefly to produce sweating, promote the flow of saliva, contract the pupil of the eye, and for glaucoma.
- pinch pleat — a narrow pleat that is usually part of a series at the top of curtains.
- 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.
- plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
- plane crash — an accident in which an aircraft hits land or water and is damaged or destroyed
- planimetric — the measurement of plane areas.
- planoconvex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
- platycnemia — (in the shinbone) the state of being laterally flattened.
- play-centre — a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play
- 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.
- pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
- policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- polyvalence — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- preclinical — of or relating to the period prior to the appearance of the symptoms.
- precolonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- prepunctual — arriving before the appointed time
- punctulated — bearing small spots or dots
- q clearance — (in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission) the highest level of security clearance, permitting access to secret information, documents, etc., relating to nuclear research.
- racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
- radicalness — of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference.
- radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- real income — the amount of goods and services that money income will buy.
- recalescent — a brightening exhibited by cooling iron as latent heat of transformation is liberated.
- recessional — of or relating to a recession of the clergy and choir after the service.