11-letter words containing p, a, n, c
- planoconvex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
- plantocracy — government by plantation owners.
- platycnemia — (in the shinbone) the state of being laterally flattened.
- play-acting — Play-acting is behaviour where someone pretends to have attitudes or feelings that they do not really have.
- play-centre — a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play
- plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
- plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
- pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
- policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
- policy loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company to a policyholder with the cash value of the policy serving as security.
- polyactinal — possessing many rays
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- polyvalence — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- pontificate — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- porto rican — former official name (until 1932) of Puerto Rico.
- postcranial — located posterior to the head.
- potvaliancy — brave only as a result of being drunk.
- power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
- preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
- preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
- preacquaint — to acquaint (someone with information) in advance
- preannounce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- preaudience — the right to be given an audience before other people; the privilege of being the first to be heard
- precambrian — noting or pertaining to the earliest era of earth history, ending 570 million years ago, during which the earth's crust formed and life first appeared in the seas.
- precipitant — falling headlong.
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- preclinical — of or relating to the period prior to the appearance of the symptoms.
- precolonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- precontract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- predicament — an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.
- predication — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- prefinanced — financed in advance
- prehispanic — Spanish.
- preindicate — to indicate in advance; presage: The early thaw preindicated an avalanche.
- prejudicant — judging beforehand
- preoccupant — a previous occupant
- prepunctual — arriving before the appointed time
- preromantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- prevacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- price range — the highest and lowest price of a commodity, security, etc., over a given period of time.
- principally — chiefly; mainly.
- prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
- pro-african — Also, Africa. of or from Africa; belonging to the black peoples of Africa.
- pro-vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.