11-letter words containing p, e, a, s
- ostreophage — someone who loves or eats oysters
- ostreophagy — the consumption of oysters
- outer space — space beyond the atmosphere of the earth.
- outpatients — Plural form of outpatient.
- pacesetting — a person, group, or organization that is the most progressive or successful and serves as a model to be imitated.
- packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
- paediatrics — Paediatrics is the area of medicine that is concerned with the treatment of children's illnesses.
- page design — the way a page is organized and presented
- page proofs — the final version of a book before it goes to the printer, containing all elements including page numbers and layout
- painesville — a city in NE Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- palaeologus — family name of Byzantine rulers 1259–1453.
- palestinian — a native or inhabitant of Palestine.
- pallescence — the condition of being pallescent
- palletising — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palm desert — a town in S California, near Palm Springs.
- palmatisect — (of leaves) having palmate veins and lobes split almost to the base of the blade.
- palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
- pampelmoose — a large citrus fruit
- pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
- pan-atheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- paper chase — the effort to earn a diploma or college degree, especially in law, or a professional certificate or license.
- paperperson — a person who delivers newspapers to customers door to door.
- papyraceous — papery.
- para-phrase — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
- parablepsis — abnormal vision
- parade rest — a position assumed by a soldier or sailor in which the feet are 12 inches (30.48 cm) apart, the hands are clasped behind the back, and the head is held motionless and facing forward.
- paragenesis — the origin of minerals or mineral deposits in contact so as to affect one another's formation.
- paraleipsis — paralipsis.
- parallelise — to make parallel; place so as to be parallel.
- parallelism — the position or relation of parallels.
- parallelist — a person who seeks or makes a comparison.
- paranephros — the adrenal gland
- paraparesis — partial paralysis, especially of the lower limbs.
- paraphraser — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
- 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.
- parasuicide — the deliberate infliction of injury on oneself or the taking of a drug overdose as an attempt at suicide which may not be intended to be successful
- parcel post — (in the U.S. Postal Service) nonpreferential mail consisting of packages and parcels, weighing one pound or more sent at fourth-class rates. Compare fourth class.