12-letter words containing p, a, n, c, y
- nonphysician — a person who is not a physician
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- nymphomaniac — a woman who has abnormally excessive and uncontrollable sexual desire.
- oceanography — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
- omphalomancy — Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have.
- one-act play — a short play consisting of only one act
- onychophagia — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
- onychophoran — any small, predatory, caterpillarlike animal of the phylum Onychophora, common in tropical forests, having stubby legs ending in pincers.
- opalescently — In an opalescent manner.
- pancytopenia — an abnormally low level of all blood cells
- panic buying — shopping to stockpile for emergency
- pantisocracy — a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal
- paracyanogen — a polymer of cyanogen
- paranoically — in a paranoiac manner
- part company — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- participancy — participation.
- pay increase — a rise in pay or salary
- payment card — A payment card is a plastic card which you use like a credit card, but which takes the money directly from your bank account.
- peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
- pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pedantocracy — rule by pedants; a system of government by pedants
- penal colony — remote prison
- penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
- penny arcade — an amusement hall or area that contains coin-operated entertainment devices, originally operated for a penny a play.
- phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- photodynamic — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- phrygian cap — a soft, conical cap represented in ancient Greek art as part of Phrygian dress and associated, since the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the liberty cap.
- phycoxanthin — a yellow pigment found in brown seaweeds and types of algae
- physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- piggybacking — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
- pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
- placentology — the scientific study of the placenta
- plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
- platonically — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
- playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
- pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
- pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
- policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polynucleate — having many nuclei.
- polysynaptic — having or involving more than one synapse.
- postcoronary — of, relating to, or occurring after a heart attack
- postsynaptic — being or occurring on the receiving end of a discharge across the synapse.
- precipitancy — the quality or state of being precipitant.
- preoccupancy — the act, right, or instance of prior occupancy.
- press agency — news-reporting organization
- prince royal — the eldest son of a king or queen.
- principality — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.