11-letter words containing p, e, n, t, y
- parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
- party liner — a person who follows a party line, especially the Communist Party line.
- patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
- pecan patty — a praline made with pecans.
- pectinately — in a pectinate manner
- penalty box — an enclosed space adjacent to the rink for penalized players, the penalty timekeeper, the game timekeeper, and the official scorer.
- pendulosity — the state or quality of being pendulous
- penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
- pennyweight — (in troy weight) a unit of 24 grains or 1/20 of an ounce (1.56 grams). Abbreviation: dwt, pwt.
- pentacyclic — having five rings of atoms
- pentadactyl — having five digits on each hand or foot.
- pentagynous — (of plants) belonging to the order Pentagynia, characterized by the presence of five styles or pistils
- pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
- pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
- pentastylos — a pentastyle building, as a classical temple.
- pepperminty — having the flavour, scent, or colour of peppermint
- peregrinity — foreignness; strangeness; the quality of being peregrine
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- perinatally — during the perinatal period; before birth
- permanently — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- persistency — the act or fact of persisting.
- persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
- personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- pertinacity — the quality of being pertinacious; persistence.
- petitionary — of the nature of or expressing a petition.
- phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
- phenix city — a city in E Alabama, on the Chattahoochee River.
- phlyctenule — a small phlyctena
- phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
- pinocytoses — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
- planetology — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
- platinotype — a process of printing positives in which a platinum salt is used, rather than the usual silver salts, in order to make a more permanent print.
- platycnemia — (in the shinbone) the state of being laterally flattened.
- platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
- play-centre — a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play
- plentifully — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- pneumectomy — pneumonectomy.
- pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
- poltroonery — a wretched coward; craven.
- polycentric — having many centers, especially of power or importance: the polycentric world of banking.
- polygenetic — Biology. relating to or exhibiting polygenesis.
- polystyrene — a clear plastic or stiff foam, a polymer of styrene, used chiefly as an insulator in refrigerators and air conditioners.
- polytechnic — of, relating to, or offering instruction in a variety of industrial arts, applied sciences, or technical subjects: a polytechnic institute.
- polyvoltine — multivoltine.
- ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- potentially — possibly but not yet actually: potentially useful information.
- potteringly — in a pottering fashion, slowly
- precedently — in a precedent or preceding fashion, beforehand
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- premonetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.