11-letter words containing p, a, n, c
- japan cedar — an evergreen tree, Cryptomeria japonica, of Japan, characterized by the pyramidal manner of growth of its branches.
- kanchipuram — a city in SE India, in Tamil Nadu: a sacred Hindu town known as "the Benares of the South"; textile industries. Pop: 152 984 (2001)
- kneecapping — (uncountable) The act of destroying the kneecaps of (a person), usually by shooting at the knees, as a punishment carried out by criminals or terrorists.
- knoop scale — a scale of hardness based on the indentation made in the material to be tested by a diamond point.
- landscapers — Plural form of landscaper.
- landscaping — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- landscapist — an artist who paints landscapes.
- lap dancing — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- lapidescent — in the process of changing into stone
- lead pencil — a writing or drawing implement made of graphite in a wooden or metal holder.
- leap second — Coordinated Universal Time
- leprechauns — a dwarf or sprite.
- lophobranch — belonging or pertaining to the Lophobranchii, the group of fishes comprising the pipefishes, sea horses, snipefishes, trumpetfishes, etc.
- lunarscapes — Plural form of lunarscape.
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lycanthropy — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- mancipation — (obsolete) slavery.
- mancipatory — relating to mancipation
- mantelpiece — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- mantlepiece — mantel.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- match point — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the match.
- meatpacking — (US) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
- mecopterans — Plural form of mecopteran.
- metanephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of higher vertebrates, becoming the permanent and functional kidney.
- mimic panel — a panel simulating the geographical layout of a television studio, railway points system, traffic interchange, etc, in which small indicator lamps display the selected state of the lighting circuits, signalling, traffic lights, etc
- misocapnist — (rare) One who hates tobacco smoke.
- monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- monographic — a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.
- munich pact — the pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany on September 29, 1938, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany: often cited as an instance of unwise and unprincipled appeasement of an aggressive nation.
- municipally — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- nailclipper — a small mechanical device for clipping the fingernails or toenails.
- nanophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the nanometre range or of phenomena occurring in nanoseconds
- naphthacene — an explosive solid compound, C 1 8 H 1 2 , derived from anthracene and coal tar: used for detonating high explosives, as TNT.
- narcoleptic — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- nazca plate — a tectonic division of the earth's crust, coincident with the suboceanic Peru Basin, and bounded on the north by the Cocos Plate, separated from the South American Plate by the Peru-Chile Trench, from the Pacific Plate by the East Pacific Rise, and from the Antarctic Plate by the Chile Rise.
- neanthropic — of or relating to modern forms of humans as compared with extinct species of the genus Homo.
- necrophagan — (zoology) Any of the tribe Necrophaga of beetles whose larvae feed on carrion.
- necrophagia — the eating of dead bodies; esp., the practice of feeding on carrion
- necrophilia — an erotic attraction to corpses.
- necrophobia — an abnormal fear of death; thanatophobia.
- neoplatonic — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- neotropical — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising that part of the New World extending from the tropic of Cancer southward.
- nephritical — Alternative form of nephritic.
- neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- noctiphobia — Fear of night; nyctophobia.
- non-optical — of, relating to, or applying optics or the principles of optics.
- non-typical — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- noncoplanar — not existing in the same plane
- nonemphatic — lacking emphasis, not emphatic