11-letter words containing o, p, t, a, i, n
- patronizing — displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner: a patronizing greeting, accompanied by a gentle pat on the pack.
- patroonship — a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
- pay station — a machine where you can pay for parking, as in a car park, etc
- pedal point — a sustained bass note, over which the other parts move bringing about changing harmonies
- penetration — the act or power of penetrating.
- pentagonoid — like a pentagon in shape.
- pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
- pentastomid — tongue worm.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- phallotoxin — any of a group of potent mycotoxins produced by certain mushroom species of the genus Amanita.
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- phonematics — phonemics.
- phonetastic — (communications) A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
- phonetician — a specialist in phonetics or in some aspect of phonetics.
- phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
- phonotactic — of or relating to phonotactics: Phonotactic constraints in English prevent the occurrence of the consonant clusters (sr) and (dl) at the beginning of words.
- phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
- piano stool — adjustable stool used by pianist
- piano tuner — a person who tunes pianos and sometimes other keyboard instruments.
- pignoration — the act or process of pledging or pawning
- pilot plant — an experimental industrial plant in which processes or techniques planned for use in full-scale operation are tested in advance.
- pima cotton — a variety of fine cotton developed from Egyptian cotton, produced in the southwestern U.S., used chiefly in the manufacture of shirts, ties, etc.
- pinacotheca — a place where works of art are displayed or stored
- pinot blanc — any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- 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.
- plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
- 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.
- point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
- pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
- poll rating — a measurement of a politician's popularity among the electorate, obtained by canvassing a representative sample of people