11-letter words containing p, e, n, c
- pentactinal — of or relating to a pentact
- pentacyclic — having five rings of atoms
- pentadactyl — having five digits on each hand or foot.
- pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
- pentazocine — a synthetic narcotic analgesic, C 1 9 H 2 7 NO, used chiefly for the relief of moderate to severe pain.
- penteconter — (in ancient Greece) a commander of fifty men
- pentecostal — of or relating to Pentecost, a Christian festival commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles.
- peppercorny — the berry of the pepper plant, Piper nigrum, dried and used as a condiment, in pickling, etc.
- perceptions — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- percipience — perceiving or capable of perceiving.
- percolation — the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
- perfectness — conforming absolutely to the description or definition of an ideal type: a perfect sphere; a perfect gentleman.
- performance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- pericentral — arranged around a centre
- pericentric — the point at which a heavenly body orbiting around a primary other than the earth or sun is closest to the primary.
- pericranium — the outer periosteum of the cranium.
- perinephric — the capsule of connective tissue that envelops the kidney.
- perinuclear — situated near or occurring around the nucleus.
- peritonitic — inflammation of the peritoneum, often accompanied by pain and tenderness in the abdomen, vomiting, constipation, and moderate fever.
- perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- permanganic — of or derived from permanganic acid.
- permittance — the act of permitting or giving consent
- perpetuance — to make perpetual.
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- persian cat — a long-haired variety of the domestic cat, originally raised in Persia and Afghanistan.
- persistence — the act or fact of persisting.
- persistency — the act or fact of persisting.
- persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
- pertinacity — the quality of being pertinacious; persistence.
- pescatarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pescetarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pet scanner — a tomographic imaging device that yields visual information about the ongoing activity of the brain: positron-emitting isotopes, incorporated into biologically important compounds, are injected intravenously or administered by inhalation, and the resultant gamma radiation is sensed by detectors and converted into computer-generated images of blood flow, oxygen utilization, glucose uptake, etc.
- phagedaenic — relating to or having the characteristics of phagedaena
- phanerozoic — the eon comprising the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras.
- pheneticist — a person who makes classifications in the field of biology according to phenetic criteria
- phenix city — a city in E Alabama, on the Chattahoochee River.
- phlyctenule — a small phlyctena
- phonematics — phonemics.
- phonemicize — to transcribe into phonemic symbols.
- phonetastic — (communications) A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
- phonetician — a specialist in phonetics or in some aspect of phonetics.
- phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
- phoneticize — to represent (speech) in writing by means of a system in which individual symbols correspond regularly with speech sounds.
- photic zone — the upper layer of a body of water delineated by the depth to which enough sunlight can penetrate to permit photosynthesis.
- phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
- phycophaein — a brownish pigment which is found in seaweed
- piano piece — a piece of music played on the piano
- picket line — a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.
- picnic site — an attractive place for picnics