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11-letter words containing n, a, i, l, p, o

  • piston land — A piston land is a raised area of a piston between piston rings.
  • piston slap — the characteristic sound of a seriously worn piston in a cylinder (usually of the engine of a motor car)
  • 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 flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
  • plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • planuliform — resembling a planula
  • plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
  • platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
  • 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.
  • playstation — (games, hardware)   The leading family of games consoles, from Sony Corporation consisting of the original Playstation (PS1) and the Playstation 2 (PS2). The basic Playstations consist of a small box containing the processor and a DVD reader, with video outputs to connect to a TV, sockets for two game controllers, and a socket for one or two memory cards. The PS2 also has USB sockets. The PS2 can run PS1 software because the PS2's I/O processor is the same as the PS1's CPU.
  • pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
  • point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
  • policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
  • policy loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company to a policyholder with the cash value of the policy serving as security.
  • poll rating — a measurement of a politician's popularity among the electorate, obtained by canvassing a representative sample of people
  • pollination — the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma.
  • polling day — date of election voting
  • polyactinal — possessing many rays
  • polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
  • polylingual — pertaining to, expressed in, or using several languages; multilingual.
  • pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
  • portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
  • postcranial — located posterior to the head.
  • postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
  • postlanding — occurring after a landing (of an aircraft, shuttle, etc)
  • postnuptial — subsequent to marriage: postnuptial adjustments.
  • postulating — to ask, demand, or claim.
  • postulation — to ask, demand, or claim.
  • pot-valiant — brave only as a result of being drunk.
  • potentially — possibly but not yet actually: potentially useful information.
  • potvaliancy — brave only as a result of being drunk.
  • precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
  • precolonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
  • prelibation — a foretaste.
  • previsional — characteristic of prevision
  • probational — the act of testing.
  • proclaimant — someone who proclaims
  • proletarian — pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.
  • promotional — advancement in rank or position.
  • pronatalism — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
  • pronatalist — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
  • pronominals — Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
  • propylamine — an isomeric amine of propyl
  • provisional — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • psilomelane — a common mineral consisting of a mixture of pyrolusite and other oxides of manganese, usually found in black, rounded masses: an ore of manganese.
  • publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
  • pullulation — to send forth sprouts, buds, etc.; germinate; sprout.
  • pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
  • pustulation — the formation or breaking out of pustules.
  • rapscallion — a rascal; rogue; scamp.
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