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11-letter words containing p, e, a, n

  • plain tripe — the fatty, inner lining of the first stomach (the rumen) of a steer, calf, hog, or sheep, having a bland taste and used as a food, especially in the preparation of such dishes as haggis, head cheese, etc.
  • plain weave — the most common and tightest of basic weave structures in which the filling threads pass over and under successive warp threads and repeat the same pattern with alternate threads in the following row, producing a checkered surface.
  • plainstanes — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • plane angle — an angle between two intersecting lines.
  • plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
  • plane crash — an accident in which an aircraft hits land or water and is damaged or destroyed
  • plane table — a surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board mounted on adjustable legs, and used in the field for plotting measurements directly
  • plane-table — a drawing board mounted on a tripod, used in the field, with an alidade, for surveying tracts of land.
  • planer tree — a small tree, Planera aquatica, of the elm family, growing in moist ground in the southern U.S., bearing a small, ovoid, nutlike fruit and yielding a compact light-brown wood.
  • planet gear — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • planetarian — a staff member at a planetarium.
  • planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
  • planetology — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • planimetric — the measurement of plane areas.
  • planisphere — a map of half or more of the celestial sphere with a device for indicating the part of a given location visible at a given time.
  • plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
  • planoconvex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
  • planogamete — a motile gamete.
  • plant louse — aphid.
  • 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.
  • planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
  • 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
  • platinotype — a process of printing positives in which a platinum salt is used, rather than the usual silver salts, in order to make a more permanent print.
  • platycnemia — (in the shinbone) the state of being laterally flattened.
  • platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
  • play-centre — a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play
  • playfulness — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
  • plebeianism — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
  • plebeianize — to make popular or vulgar
  • plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
  • 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.
  • pleinairism — pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
  • pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
  • plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
  • pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
  • pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
  • pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
  • pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
  • point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
  • pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
  • poison bean — Also called bladderpod. a tall plant, Glottidium vesicaria, of the legume family, native to the southeastern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers and pods containing highly poisonous seeds.
  • poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
  • poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
  • 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)
  • policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
  • polynuclear — having many nuclei.
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