11-letter words containing l, e, n, c
- outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
- overbalance — to outweigh: The opportunity overbalances the disadvantages of leaving town.
- overcontrol — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- overlocking — the act of oversewing a hem or fabric edge to prevent fraying
- pallescence — the condition of being pallescent
- panegyrical — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
- 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.
- penciliform — having a pencillike shape.
- penicillate — having a penicil or penicils.
- penicillium — any fungus of the genus Penicillium, certain species of which are used in cheesemaking and as the source of penicillin.
- 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.
- perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- phlyctenule — a small phlyctena
- phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
- picket line — a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.
- 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.
- pincer-like — resembling pincers in shape or action
- pinch pleat — a narrow pleat that is usually part of a series at the top of curtains.
- pinchbottle — a bottle with concave sides, as for containing liquor.
- 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.
- pitchblende — a massive variety of uraninite, occurring in black pitchlike masses: a major ore of uranium and radium.
- 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.
- pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
- pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
- policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.