11-letter words containing p, e, n, c
- producement — production
- proficiency — the state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
- projectment — a design or projection
- prosaicness — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prosiliency — prominence
- prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- prospection — anticipation
- protodeacon — a chief deacon in the Greek Church.
- protopectin — any of the class of water-insoluble pectic substances that are found in the rind of citrus fruits or in apple peels and that are hydrolyzed to pectin or pectic acid.
- provenience — provenance; origin; source.
- providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
- psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
- psychogenic — having origin in the mind or in a mental condition or process: a psychogenic disorder.
- psychotogen — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
- puckishness — the state of being puckish
- punch press — a power-driven machine used to cut, draw, or otherwise shape material, especially metal sheets, with dies, under pressure or by heavy blows.
- punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
- punctuative — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- punctulated — bearing small spots or dots
- punicaceous — of or relating to the family Punicaceae, containing the pomegranates
- punk rocker — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- pycniospore — the spore produced in a pycnium.
- pyrogenetic — heat-producing
- pyrokinetic — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
- pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- pyroxenitic — relating to pyroxenite
- recarpeting — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- reciprocant — a differential invariant
- red puccoon — bloodroot; a plant yielding a red dye
- reinspected — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- relandscape — to landscape again after a previous landscaping
- renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
- replacement — the act of replacing.
- replication — a reply; answer.
- rescription — a reply or answering of a letter
- respondence — the act of responding; response: respondence to a stimulus.
- retinoscope — an apparatus that determines the refractive power of the eye by observing the lights and shadows on the pupil when a mirror illumines the retina; skiascope.
- retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
- rip current — undertow (def 1).
- rock pigeon — rock dove.
- roman peace — the establishment and maintenance of peace by armed force.
- rope dancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- ropedancing — the act of dancing on a rope
- saponaceous — resembling soap; soapy.
- scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.