11-letter words containing l, a, t, e, n
- penicillate — having a penicil or penicils.
- peninsulate — to cause (land) to become peninsular
- penitential — of, pertaining to, proceeding from, or expressive of penitence or repentance.
- pentactinal — of or relating to a pentact
- pentacyclic — having five rings of atoms
- pentadactyl — having five digits on each hand or foot.
- pentangular — having five angles and five sides; pentagonal.
- pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
- pentastylos — a pentastyle building, as a classical temple.
- pentathlete — an athlete participating or specializing in the pentathlon.
- pentavalent — having a valence of 5: pentavalent arsenic.
- pentecostal — of or relating to Pentecost, a Christian festival commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles.
- pentlandite — a mineral, sulfide of nickel, occurring in the form of bronze-colored granular aggregates, found with pyrrhotite: the principal source of nickel.
- penultimate — next to the last: the penultimate scene of the play.
- percolation — the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
- pericentral — arranged around a centre
- perinatally — during the perinatal period; before birth
- periodontal — of or relating to the periodontium.
- permanently — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- 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.
- petalomania — the condition in which a flower has proportionately more petals than is normal
- petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
- phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
- phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
- 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.
- 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.
- plain tripe — the fatty, inner lining of the first stomach (the rumen) of a steer, calf, hog, or sheep, having a bland taste and used as a food, especially in the preparation of such dishes as haggis, head cheese, etc.
- plainstanes — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
- plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
- plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
- plane table — a surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board mounted on adjustable legs, and used in the field for plotting measurements directly
- plane-table — a drawing board mounted on a tripod, used in the field, with an alidade, for surveying tracts of land.
- planer tree — a small tree, Planera aquatica, of the elm family, growing in moist ground in the southern U.S., bearing a small, ovoid, nutlike fruit and yielding a compact light-brown wood.
- planet gear — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
- planetarian — a staff member at a planetarium.
- planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
- planetology — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
- planimetric — the measurement of plane areas.
- planogamete — a motile gamete.
- plant louse — aphid.
- plantagenet — a member of the royal house that ruled England from the accession of Henry II in 1154 to the death of Richard III in 1485.
- 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.
- plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
- platemaking — the act of making plates
- 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.