11-letter words containing e, p, a, y
- play by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- 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
- playfulness — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
- poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
- polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
- polyvalence — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- pony league — a baseball league similar to a Little League and having teams whose players are from 13 to 14 years of age.
- pool player — a person who plays pool
- potentially — possibly but not yet actually: potentially useful information.
- power alley — either of the two areas in the outfield between the outfielders
- poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
- prayer book — a book containing formal prayers to be used in public or private religious devotions.
- prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
- prayerfully — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
- pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
- preambulary — of, pertaining to or of the nature of a preamble; preliminary, introductory
- preassembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- predicatory — of or relating to preaching.
- predictably — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- preliminary — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- preliterary — occurring before the existence of literature
- prematurely — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- prematurity — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- premonetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- preparatory — serving or designed to prepare: preparatory arrangements.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
- presbyteral — of or relating to a presbyter or presbytery
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- press party — a party given for reporters and photographers exclusively or particularly to get publicity, as for the introduction of a new product, the maiden voyage of a liner, or the like.
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- prevalently — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- primary key — (database) A unique identifier, often an integer, that labels a certain row in a table of a relational database. When this value occurs in other tables as a reference to a particular row in the first table it is called a "foreign key". Some RDBMSes can generate a new unique identifier each time a new row is inserted, others merely allow a column to be constrained to contain unique values. A table may have multiple candidate keys, from which the primary key is chosen. The primary key should be an arbitrary value, such as an autoincrementing integer. This avoids dependence on uniqueness, permanence and format of existing columns with real-world meaning (e.g. a person's name) or other external identifier (e.g. social security number). There should be enough possible primary key values to cater for the current and expected number of rows, bearing in mind that a wider column will generally be slower to process.
- private eye — a private detective.
- private key — (cryptography) A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
- pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
- proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- prony brake — a friction brake serving as a dynamometer for measuring torque.
- proprietary — belonging to a proprietor.
- propylamine — an isomeric amine of propyl