11-letter words containing o, p, e, n, a
- overexplain — to explain in too much detail
- overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overpayment — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- overplanned — resulting from overplanning
- paedodontic — of or relating to paedodontics
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- palaeontol. — palaeontology
- paleobotany — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil plants.
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- pandemonian — a noisy and disorderly person
- pandemonium — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- panegyricon — a collection of sermons
- panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
- panel point — a joint between two or more members of a truss.
- panicmonger — a person who spreads panic
- panomphaean — understood universally
- pantalooned — wearing pantaloons
- pantheology — a branch of theology embracing all gods and all religions
- pantheonize — to place, especially to bury, in a pantheon: The author will be pantheonized following the funeral mass.
- pantothenic — denoting an acid which is a growth-promoting vitamin of vitamin B complex
- paper money — currency in paper form, such as government and bank notes, as distinguished from metal currency.
- paper round — job delivering newspapers
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- paperperson — a person who delivers newspapers to customers door to door.
- paranephros — the adrenal gland
- parasensory — extrasensory.
- parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
- parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
- partitioner — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- passionless — not feeling or moved by passion; cold or unemotional; calm or detached.
- passiontide — the two-week period from Passion Sunday to Holy Saturday.
- paternoster — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- patter song — a comic song depending for its humorous effect on rapid enunciation of the words, occurring most commonly in comic opera and operetta.
- 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.