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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.
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