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11-letter words containing p, a, l, i, t

  • palmatisect — (of leaves) having palmate veins and lobes split almost to the base of the blade.
  • palpability — readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc.; obvious; evident: a palpable lie; palpable absurdity.
  • palpitating — to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter: His heart palpitated wildly.
  • palpitation — the act of palpitating.
  • pamphletize — to write a pamphlet.
  • 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.
  • pantelleria — an Italian island in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia. 10,000; 32 sq. mi. (83 sq. km).
  • pantologist — a systematic view of all human knowledge.
  • pantonality — twelve-tone technique.
  • pantropical — living or growing throughout the tropics.
  • panty liner — a pad worn inside a woman's underwear for feminine hygiene purposes such as absorbing light menstrual flow, daily vaginal discharge, etc
  • paper trail — a written or printed record, as of transactions or judicial opinions, especially when used to incriminate someone.
  • papillulate — covered with small papillae
  • parableptic — relating to parablepsis
  • parallactic — the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
  • parallelist — a person who seeks or makes a comparison.
  • parasitical — of, relating to, or characteristic of parasites.
  • parcel-gilt — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
  • parfocality — the quality of being parfocal
  • pari-mutuel — a form of betting and of handling the betting on horse races at racetracks, in which those holding winning tickets divide the total amount bet in proportion to their wagers, less a percentage for the management, taxes, etc.
  • parking lot — an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.
  • partial key — (database)   A key which identifies a subset of a set of information items (e.g. database "records"), and which could narrow the subset to one item if other partial key(s) were combined with it.
  • partial sum — one of a series of sums of elements of a given sequence, the first sum being the first element, the second sum being the first element added to the second element, the third sum being equal to the sum of the first three elements, and so on.
  • partialized — to bias.
  • partialness — being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt.
  • partibility — the quality of being partible
  • participial — of or relating to a participle.
  • particulars — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
  • particulate — of, relating to, or composed of distinct particles.
  • party liner — a person who follows a party line, especially the Communist Party line.
  • pastoralism — the practice of herding as the primary economic activity of a society.
  • pastoralist — a grazier or land-holder raising sheep, cattle, etc, on a large scale
  • pastoralize — to make pastoral or rural.
  • patch quilt — a patchwork quilt
  • patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
  • 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
  • pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
  • pathologist — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
  • pathologize — to represent (something) as a disease
  • patientless — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
  • patriarchal — of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc.: my father's conservative, patriarchal ways.
  • patricianly — a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat.
  • patriclinic — inherited from the father; more like the father than the mother
  • patrilineal — inheriting or determining descent through the male line.
  • patrilinear — patrilineal.
  • patrimonial — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
  • patroclinic — inherited from the father; more like the father than the mother
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