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11-letter words containing n, i, p, l, e

  • painesville — a city in NE Ohio, on Lake Erie.
  • palestinian — a native or inhabitant of Palestine.
  • palladinize — to treat or cover (a surface) with palladium.
  • palletising — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
  • palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
  • panegyrical — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
  • panel point — a joint between two or more members of a truss.
  • panel strip — one of a number of strips of wood or metal laid upon the surface of a wall, ceiling, etc., so as to divide it into a number of broad areas, usually in order to conceal joints between sheets of composition material forming the surface.
  • panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
  • panhellenic — of or relating to all Greeks or to Panhellenism.
  • pantelleria — an Italian island in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia. 10,000; 32 sq. mi. (83 sq. km).
  • panty liner — a pad worn inside a woman's underwear for feminine hygiene purposes such as absorbing light menstrual flow, daily vaginal discharge, etc
  • paralleling — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
  • partialness — being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt.
  • party liner — a person who follows a party line, especially the Communist Party line.
  • passionless — not feeling or moved by passion; cold or unemotional; calm or detached.
  • paternalism — the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president.
  • paternalist — government: fatherly in style
  • patientless — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
  • patrilineal — inheriting or determining descent through the male line.
  • patrilinear — patrilineal.
  • patsy clinePatsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
  • pearl danio — a slender iridescent tropical cyprinid, Brachydanio albolineatus, from parts of southeast Asia: a popular freshwater aquarium fish.
  • pearl onion — a small white onion, often pickled and used as an appetizer or garnish.
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • pectinately — in a pectinate manner
  • pecuniarily — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
  • pedal piano — a piano having a pedal keyboard of 29 notes and connected with an action placed at the back where a special soundboard, covered with 29 strings, is built into the case.
  • pedal point — a sustained bass note, over which the other parts move bringing about changing harmonies
  • pelagianism — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
  • pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
  • 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.
  • pendulosity — the state or quality of being pendulous
  • 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.
  • peninsulate — to cause (land) to become peninsular
  • penitential — of, pertaining to, proceeding from, or expressive of penitence or repentance.
  • penological — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
  • pensionable — worker: of retirement age
  • pentactinal — of or relating to a pentact
  • pentacyclic — having five rings of atoms
  • pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
  • 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.
  • perduellion — high treason
  • perennially — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
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