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11-letter words containing p, a, n, g, l

  • palpitating — to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter: His heart palpitated wildly.
  • palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
  • panegyrical — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
  • panglossian — characterized by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity.
  • panhandling — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
  • pantheology — a branch of theology embracing all gods and all religions
  • pantologist — a systematic view of all human knowledge.
  • paphlagonia — an ancient country and Roman province in N Asia Minor, on the S coast of the Black Sea.
  • paragliding — a sport resembling hang gliding, in which a person jumps from an aircraft or high place wearing a wide, rectangular, steerable parachute.
  • paralleling — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
  • parasailing — a special parachute, kept open with wing-tip holders to help provide lift, used in parasailing.
  • parking lot — an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • pelagianism — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
  • pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
  • pencil gate — any of a large number of narrow gates used for rapid distribution of metal in large castings.
  • penological — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
  • pentangular — having five angles and five sides; pentagonal.
  • phase angle — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
  • philologian — a philologist.
  • placatingly — in a placating manner
  • plane angle — an angle between two intersecting lines.
  • planet gear — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • planetology — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • planigraphy — an x-ray photograph in which a given plane of the body is well defined and those above and below it purposely out of focus.
  • planogamete — a motile gamete.
  • planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • plantagenet — a member of the royal house that ruled England from the accession of Henry II in 1154 to the death of Richard III in 1485.
  • plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
  • plasmalogen — any of the class of phosphatides that contain an aldehyde of a fatty acid, found in heart and skeletal muscle, the brain, the liver, and in eggs.
  • plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
  • platemaking — the act of making plates
  • platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
  • play-acting — Play-acting is behaviour where someone pretends to have attitudes or feelings that they do not really have.
  • playwriting — the art or technique of writing theatrical plays; the work or profession of a playwright.
  • 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.
  • plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
  • polar angle — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
  • poll rating — a measurement of a politician's popularity among the electorate, obtained by canvassing a representative sample of people
  • polling day — date of election voting
  • polyangular — multangular; multiangular.
  • polygonatum — a plant of the genus Polygonatum
  • polylingual — pertaining to, expressed in, or using several languages; multilingual.
  • pony league — a baseball league similar to a Little League and having teams whose players are from 13 to 14 years of age.
  • postlanding — occurring after a landing (of an aircraft, shuttle, etc)
  • postulating — to ask, demand, or claim.
  • poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • preen gland — uropygial gland.
  • primigenial — relating to an early stage of existence; primitive
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