11-letter words containing e, t, y, p, i
- party liner — a person who follows a party line, especially the Communist Party line.
- party piece — Someone's party piece is something that they often do to entertain people, especially at parties, for example singing a particular song or saying a particular poem.
- party-giver — a person who gives a party
- patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
- pay dispute — a disagreement between workers and employers concerning salary
- pectinately — in a pectinate manner
- peculiarity — a trait, manner, characteristic, or habit that is odd or unusual.
- pellucidity — allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent.
- pendulosity — the state or quality of being pendulous
- pennyweight — (in troy weight) a unit of 24 grains or 1/20 of an ounce (1.56 grams). Abbreviation: dwt, pwt.
- pentacyclic — having five rings of atoms
- pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
- pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
- pepperminty — having the flavour, scent, or colour of peppermint
- perceptibly — capable of being perceived; recognizable; appreciable: a perceptible change in his behavior.
- peregrinity — foreignness; strangeness; the quality of being peregrine
- perinatally — during the perinatal period; before birth
- periodicity — the character of being periodic; the tendency to recur at regular intervals.
- peristylium — a peristyle.
- permittedly — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- persistency — the act or fact of persisting.
- persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
- personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- perspicuity — clearness or lucidity, as of a statement.
- pertinacity — the quality of being pertinacious; persistence.
- petitionary — of the nature of or expressing a petition.
- petty crime — minor offences
- phagocytize — (of a phagocyte) to devour (material).
- phenix city — a city in E Alabama, on the Chattahoochee River.
- phylacteric — of or relating to phylacteries
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
- physitheism — the attribution of physical form to gods and religious beings
- phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
- picket duty — the activity of standing outside an establishment to make a protest, to dissuade or prevent employees or clients from entering, etc
- pinocytoses — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
- pirate copy — an illicitly reproduced copy of a DVD, video, book, game, etc
- 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.
- platycnemia — (in the shinbone) the state of being laterally flattened.
- platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
- plentifully — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
- plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
- poikilocyte — an abnormally shaped red blood cell
- pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
- policy term — The policy term is the lifetime of an insurance policy.
- polycentric — having many centers, especially of power or importance: the polycentric world of banking.
- polygenetic — Biology. relating to or exhibiting polygenesis.
- polypeptide — a chain of amino acids linked together by peptide bonds and having a molecular weight of up to about 10,000.
- polytechnic — of, relating to, or offering instruction in a variety of industrial arts, applied sciences, or technical subjects: a polytechnic institute.