11-letter words containing p, e, a, n
- 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
- minneapolis — a city in SE Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- mirtazapine — (medicine) A tetracyclic antidepressant drug.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- mishappened — Simple past tense and past participle of mishappen.
- mispleading — a mistake in pleading, as a misjoinder of parties or a misstatement of a cause of action.
- misspeaking — (obsolete) Speaking ill; defamation, slander.
- model plane — a small-scale model of an aircraft, which may or may not be able to fly
- monographed — Simple past tense and past participle of monograph.
- monotherapy — (medicine) A therapy which is administered by itself.
- mope around — If you mope around or mope about a place, you wander around there not doing anything, looking and feeling unhappy.
- mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
- multiplanes — Plural form of multiplane.
- nail puller — a handheld device used for pulling out or removing nails or fastening devices
- nailclipper — a small mechanical device for clipping the fingernails or toenails.
- namedropper — A person who name-drops.
- nanospheres — Plural form of nanosphere.
- napa valley — a valley in Napa County in the San Francisco Bay Area of N California, noted for its wine production
- naphazoline — 2-(1-naphthylmethyl)-2-imidazoline hydrochloride, a sympathomimetic agent used as a vasoconstrictor.
- naphthacene — an explosive solid compound, C 1 8 H 1 2 , derived from anthracene and coal tar: used for detonating high explosives, as TNT.
- naphthalene — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble hydrocarbon, C 1 0 H 8 , usually obtained from coal tar: used in making dyes, as a moth repellant, etc.
- naphthaline — Naphthalene.
- naphthalize — to mix or saturate with naphtha.
- napoleon ii — (François Charles Joseph Bonaparte; Duke of Reichstadt) 1811–32, titular king of Rome (son of Napoleon I).
- napoleonite — a variety of diorite rock with a spherical structure
- nappy liner — a disposable paper or fabric liner placed inside a baby's nappy to catch excrement
- 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.
- neap season — the time of year when either of the two tides that occur at the first or last quarter of the moon when the tide-generating forces of the sun and moon oppose each other and produce the smallest rise and fall in tidal level
- 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.
- negrophobia — strong fear or dislike of black people.
- nematomorph — any member of the phylum Nematomorpha, having a threadlike body, comprising the horsehair worms.
- nematophore — (within the coenosarc of certain colonial hydrozoans) a small specialized tentacle-like polyp having nematocysts
- neopaganism — a 20th-century revival of interest in the worship of nature, fertility, etc., as represented by various deities.
- neopaganize — to make neopagan
- 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.
- nephropathy — any disease of the kidney.
- neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- neuroplasty — Any surgery to repair nerve tissue.
- neuropteral — (zoology) Of or pertaining to the Neuroptera.
- neuropteran — neuropterous.
- neutropenia — a decrease in the number of neutrophils in the blood: mild, moderate, or severe neutropenia.
- new planets — the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, only discovered comparatively recently
- nomographer — the art of or a treatise on drawing up laws.