11-letter words containing p, e, g, a, n
- open dating — the practice of putting a freshness date on food packages.
- opening act — the first act at a concert, etc, esp before a main act
- oppignorate — to promise or give as security
- orange peel — outer skin of an orange
- overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- pacesetting — a person, group, or organization that is the most progressive or successful and serves as a model to be imitated.
- page design — the way a page is organized and presented
- page turner — a book so exciting or gripping that one is compelled to read it very rapidly.
- page-turner — a book so exciting or gripping that one is compelled to read it very rapidly.
- palletising — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
- panegyrical — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
- panegyricon — a collection of sermons
- panicmonger — a person who spreads panic
- pantheology — a branch of theology embracing all gods and all religions
- paperhanger — a person whose job is covering walls with wallpaper.
- papermaking — the art or action of making paper
- paragenesis — the origin of minerals or mineral deposits in contact so as to affect one another's formation.
- paragenetic — the origin of minerals or mineral deposits in contact so as to affect one another's formation.
- paralleling — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- parapenting — a cross between hang-gliding and parachuting, a sport in which the participant jumps from a high place wearing a modified type of parachute, which is then used as a hang-glider
- paris green — Chemistry. an emerald-green, poisonous, water-insoluble powder produced from arsenic trioxide and copper acetate: used chiefly as a pigment, insecticide, and wood preservative.
- patter song — a comic song depending for its humorous effect on rapid enunciation of the words, occurring most commonly in comic opera and operetta.
- paumgartner — Bernhard [bern-hahrt] /ˈbɛrn hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1887–1971, Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.
- peacemaking — a person, group, or nation that tries to make peace, especially by reconciling parties who disagree, quarrel, or fight.
- 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.
- penetrating — able or tending to penetrate; piercing; sharp: a penetrating shriek; a penetrating glance.
- peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
- penological — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- pentagonese — a style of language characterized by the use of euphemisms, technical jargon, acronyms, and circumlocutions, used especially by people working in the U.S. military establishment.
- pentagonoid — like a pentagon in shape.
- pentagynous — (of plants) belonging to the order Pentagynia, characterized by the presence of five styles or pistils
- pentangular — having five angles and five sides; pentagonal.
- peregrinate — to travel or journey, especially to walk on foot.
- perigordian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an Upper Paleolithic cultural epoch in southern France, especially of the Périgord region.
- permanganic — of or derived from permanganic acid.
- persian rug — an Oriental rug made in Persia (Iran), having rich, soft colors in any of various intricate, often floral, patterns
- phagedaenic — relating to or having the characteristics of phagedaena
- phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- 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.
- pigeon hawk — merlin.
- 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.
- planogamete — a motile gamete.
- 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.