11-letter words containing p, a, n, e, l
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- blanca peak — highest peak of the Sangre de Cristo range, S Colo.: 14,317 ft (4,364 m)
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
- broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
- broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- caesalpinia — designating a family (Caesalpiniaceae) of leguminous trees and shrubs, including the Kentucky coffee tree
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
- campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
- candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
- cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
- capableness — The state or quality of being capable.
- cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
- cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
- captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
- cargo plane — a plane carrying cargo
- centripetal — acting, moving, or tending to move towards a centre
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- chain plate — any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
- chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
- channel-hop — to change television channels repeatedly using a remote control device
- chippendale — Chippendale is a style of furniture from the eighteenth century.
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
- clean sweep — an overwhelming victory
- clean up on — to defeat; beat
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- cling peach — a clingstone peach.
- closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
- coleopteran — any of the insects of the cosmopolitan order Coleoptera, in which the forewings are modified to form shell-like protective elytra. The order includes the beetles and weevils
- commonplace — If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
- companiable — sociable
- compensable — entitled to compensation or capable of being compensated
- complacence — a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
- complacency — Complacency is being complacent about a situation.
- complainers — Plural form of complainer.
- complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
- compliances — Plural form of compliance.
- componental — of, relating to, or having components
- conceptacle — a flask-shaped cavity containing the reproductive organs in some algae and fungi
- contemplant — absorbed in contemplation
- contemplate — If you contemplate an action, you think about whether to do it or not.
- contraplete — either of two opposed and complementary elements in a relationship.
- counterplan — an opposing plan
- counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
- counterplea — a reply to a plea
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast