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

  • apprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of apprehend.
  • apprehender — Agent noun of apprehend; one who apprehends.
  • apprenticed — a person who works for another in order to learn a trade: an apprentice to a plumber.
  • apprentices — Plural form of apprentice.
  • appropinque — to approach
  • approvement — (obsolete, Old English law) Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
  • appurtenant — relating, belonging, or accessory
  • apron piece — (in a staircase) a header receiving the ends of rough strings, carriage pieces, and the joists of landings.
  • apron stage — a stage that projects into the auditorium so that the audience sit on three sides of it
  • araneomorph — (zoology) Any of the Araneomorphae, a suborder of spiders whose fangs cross with a pinching action.
  • arolla pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra, found esp in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
  • asperations — Plural form of asperation.
  • aspergation — the action of sprinkling, suffusing or irrigating with water
  • atriopeptin — any of several peptide hormones that are released by the atria of the heart in response to an abnormal increase in blood volume and that modulate blood pressure and the excretion of sodium, potassium, and water. Abbreviation: ANF.
  • attempering — Present participle of attemper.
  • basepersons — Plural form of baseperson.
  • bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
  • bearing cap — A bearing cap is a rigid, semi-circular part that fits around one half of a bearing and secures it.
  • bellerophon — a hero of Corinth who performed many deeds with the help of the winged horse Pegasus, notably the killing of the monster Chimera
  • bench press — a weight-training exercise in which a person lies on a bench and pushes a barbell upwards with both hands from chest level until the arms are straight, then lowers it again
  • bench-press — a weightlifting exercise in which one lies supine on a bench and with both hands pushes a barbell or fixed weight upward from chest level to arm's length and then lowers it back to chest level: usually repeated in sets.
  • benchership — the position of a bencher at the Inns of Court
  • benzopyrene — an aromatic hydrocarbon, C20H12, found in coal tar, cigarette smoke, etc. and known to be a cause of cancer in animals
  • berry spoon — a small spoon, especially of the late 18th century, having a perforated bowl.
  • birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
  • bit pattern — (data)   A sequence of bits, in a memory, a communications channel or some other device. The term is used to contrast this with some higher level interpretation of the bits such as an integer or an image. A bit string is similar but suggests an arbitrary, as opposed to predetermined, length.
  • bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
  • box spanner — a spanner consisting of a steel cylinder with a hexagonal end that fits over a nut: used esp to turn nuts in positions that are recessed or difficult of access
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
  • broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • brown paper — a coarse unbleached paper used for wrapping
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
  • campaigners — Plural form of campaigner.
  • campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
  • candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
  • caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
  • cape breton — an island forming the NE part of Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. 3970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).
  • capernoited — capricious
  • capernoitie — the head
  • carbapenems — Plural form of carbapenem.
  • cargo plane — a plane carrying cargo
  • carpentaria — Gulf ofarm of the Arafura Sea, indenting the N coast of Australia: c. 480 mi (772 km) long; 400 mi (644 km) wide
  • carpinteria — a town in SW California.
  • celery pine — a New Zealand gymnosperm tree, Phyllocladus trichomanoides, with celerylike shoots and useful wood: family Phyllocladaceae
  • center jump — a jump ball between the centers of the opposing teams, held in the circle at the center of the court, as at the beginning of each period.
  • centerpiece — The centerpiece of something is the best or most interesting part of it.
  • centerpunch — to mark with a center punch.
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