11-letter words containing p, a, s, n
- outspanning — Present participle of outspan.
- p's and q's — manners; behavior; conduct (usually preceded by mind or watch): The children were told to mind their p's and q's.
- pacesetting — a person, group, or organization that is the most progressive or successful and serves as a model to be imitated.
- pachysandra — any plant of the genus Pachysandra, as the Allegheny spurge or Japanese spurge, the leaves of which grow in a rounded clump, widely used as a ground cover in the U.S.
- page design — the way a page is organized and presented
- painesville — a city in NE Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- painstaking — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- paint spray — paint bought in a special can which you spray on a surface by pressing a button on the top of the can
- palestinian — a native or inhabitant of Palestine.
- pallescence — the condition of being pallescent
- palletising — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
- palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
- pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
- pan-arabism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the Arab nations.
- pan-atheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pan-islamic — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
- pan-slavism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all the Slavic peoples.
- pancarditis — inflammation of the entire heart: the pericardium, myocardium, and endocardium.
- pancha sila — a standard recitation of Hinayanists, including repetitions of formulas and of vows to abstain from anger, lust, cowardice, malevolence, and to abstain from the desire for possessions and unwholesome pleasures.
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- pancratiast — (in ancient Greece) a person who takes part in a pancratium
- panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
- panel strip — one of a number of strips of wood or metal laid upon the surface of a wall, ceiling, etc., so as to divide it into a number of broad areas, usually in order to conceal joints between sheets of composition material forming the surface.
- panentheism — the belief that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it
- panentheist — someone who believes that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it
- panesthesia — total awareness and perception
- panglossian — characterized by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity.
- panic grass — Also called panic grass. any grass of the genus Panicum, many species of which bear edible grain.
- panpsychism — a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.
- panpsychist — someone who believes that all matter has an element of consciousness
- panspermist — someone who advocates panspermia
- pantheistic — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pantisocrat — someone who believes, or takes part, in pantisocracy
- pantologist — a systematic view of all human knowledge.
- pantomimist — a person who acts in pantomime.
- pantoscopic — showing a wide-angled view
- pants press — A pants press in a hotel room is a machine that you put a pair of pants inside to get rid of the creases.
- paperperson — a person who delivers newspapers to customers door to door.
- parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
- paragenesis — the origin of minerals or mineral deposits in contact so as to affect one another's formation.
- paranephros — the adrenal gland
- parasailing — a special parachute, kept open with wing-tip holders to help provide lift, used in parasailing.
- parascender — a person who takes part in parascending
- parascenium — either of two wings flanking and extending forward from the skene of an ancient Greek theater.
- parascience — the study of subjects that are outside the scope of traditional science because they cannot be explained by accepted scientific theory or tested by conventional scientific methods
- parasensory — extrasensory.
- parasol ant — leaf-cutting ant.
- paratransit — public or group transportation, as by automobile, van, or minibus, organized to relieve the congestion of mass transportation.