11-letter words containing o, n, p, a
- payday loan — A payday loan is a small personal cash loan at a very high interest rate, secured by the borrower's next paycheck.
- peace envoy — someone sent on a mission to end conflict or bring peace
- peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
- peak season — busiest annual period
- peano curve — a curve that passes through every point of a two-dimensional region.
- peanut worm — any small, unsegmented, marine worm of the phylum Sipuncula, that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body, giving the appearance of a peanut seed.
- 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.
- 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
- pedantocrat — a pedantic ruler
- pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
- penalty box — an enclosed space adjacent to the rink for penalized players, the penalty timekeeper, the game timekeeper, and the official scorer.
- penetration — the act or power of penetrating.
- penological — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- pensionable — worker: of retirement age
- pentagonese — a style of language characterized by the use of euphemisms, technical jargon, acronyms, and circumlocutions, used especially by people working in the U.S. military establishment.
- pentagonoid — like a pentagon in shape.
- pentagynous — (of plants) belonging to the order Pentagynia, characterized by the presence of five styles or pistils
- pentahedron — a solid figure having five faces.
- pentamerous — consisting of or divided into five parts.
- pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
- pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
- pentastomid — tongue worm.
- pentastylos — a pentastyle building, as a classical temple.
- pentatonism — the use of a five-tone scale.
- pentazocine — a synthetic narcotic analgesic, C 1 9 H 2 7 NO, used chiefly for the relief of moderate to severe pain.
- 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.
- perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
- perennation — the survival of a plant through the winter or dry season
- perforation — a hole, or one of a series of holes, bored or punched through something, as those between individual postage stamps of a sheet to facilitate separation.
- performance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- perigordian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an Upper Paleolithic cultural epoch in southern France, especially of the Périgord region.
- period pain — Period pain is the pain that some women have when they have a monthly period.
- periodontal — of or relating to the periodontium.
- periodontia — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- permutation — the act of permuting or permutating; alteration; transformation.
- person-year — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in a year consisting of a standard number of person-days.
- personal ad — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- personalise — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalism — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- 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.
- personalize — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personation — to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
- petalomania — the condition in which a flower has proportionately more petals than is normal
- petitionary — of the nature of or expressing a petition.
- petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
- phainopepla — a crested passerine bird, Phainopepla nitens, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.