9-letter words containing p, e, n
- pennalism — a system of mild oppression and torment practised upon first-year students of German Protestant universities in the 17th century
- penniform — shaped like a feather; (esp of muscles) having fibres attached to the tendon in a feather-like fashion
- penniless — without any money whatsoever; totally impoverished; destitute.
- penninite — a member of the chlorite group, rhombohedral in habit.
- pennoncel — a small pennon, as at the head of a lance.
- pennyland — in Caithness and the Orkney and Shetland islands a piece of land on which one penny's worth of tax was owed to the overlord
- pennywort — any of several plants having round or roundish leaves, as the navelwort.
- penobscot — a river flowing S from N Maine into Penobscot Bay. 350 miles (565 km) long.
- penpusher — pencil pusher.
- pensacola — a seaport in NW Florida, on Pensacola Bay.
- penseroso — a pensive, brooding, or thoughtful person
- pensioner — a person who receives or lives on a pension.
- pensively — dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
- penstemon — any of numerous chiefly North American plants belonging to the genus Penstemon, of the figwort family, some species of which are cultivated for their showy, variously colored flowers.
- pentagram — a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc.
- pentalogy — a combination of five closely related things, esp (in medicine) closely connected symptoms or (in art) related works of art
- pentalpha — pentagram.
- pentangle — pentagram.
- pentapody — a measure consisting of five feet.
- pentarchy — a government by five persons.
- pentathla — pentathlons
- pentecost — a Christian festival celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter, commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles; Whitsunday.
- penthouse — an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
- penticton — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- pentium 2 — Pentium II
- pentium 3 — Pentium III
- pentolite — a high explosive consisting of pentaerythritol tetranitrate and TNT.
- pentosans — any of a class of polysaccharides that occur in plants, humus, etc., and form pentoses upon hydrolysis.
- pentoside — a glycoside that, upon hydrolysis, yields a pentose
- pentoxide — an oxide containing five atoms of oxygen, as phosphorus pentoxide, P 2 O 5 .
- pentylene — any unsaturated hydrocarbon with formula C5H8
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- peppering — a pungent condiment obtained from various plants of the genus Piper, especially from the dried berries, used whole or ground, of the tropical climbing shrub P. nigrum.
- pepperoni — a highly seasoned, hard sausage of beef and pork.
- peppiness — energetic; vigorous; lively.
- pepsinate — to treat, prepare, or mix with pepsin.
- peptonize — to subject (food) to an artificial, partial digestion by pepsin or pancreatic extract in order to aid digestion.
- per annum — by the year; yearly.
- percaline — a fine, lightweight cotton fabric, usually finished with a gloss and dyed in one color, used especially for linings.
- percental — Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- percenter — a person or thing that charges or pays a certain percentage, cooperates to a specified degree, etc. (used in combination): agents and other ten-percenters.
- perchance — Literary. perhaps; maybe; possibly.
- percheron — one of a French breed of draft horses, having a gray or black coat.
- perdition — a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
- peregrine — foreign; alien; coming from abroad.
- pereirine — Pharmacology. an alkaloid, C 1 9 H 2 4 ON 2 , obtained from pereira bark and formerly used as a quinine substitute.
- perendale — a Romney-Cheviot crossbreed of sheep
- perennate — to survive from season to season for an indefinite number of years.