11-letter words containing p, i, l
- peroxisomal — of or relating to a peroxisome; of the nature of a peroxisome
- personalise — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalism — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- personalist — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- personalize — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- perspirable — having the ability to perspire
- persuasible — capable of being persuaded; open to or yielding to persuasion.
- persulfuric — denoting a type of acid
- pervasively — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- pestologist — a person who analyses and researches pests and how to get rid of them
- petalomania — the condition in which a flower has proportionately more petals than is normal
- petri plate — a petri dish containing culture medium
- phainopepla — a crested passerine bird, Phainopepla nitens, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- phallically — in a phallic manner or in a manner that is suggestive of a phallus
- phallotoxin — any of a group of potent mycotoxins produced by certain mushroom species of the genus Amanita.
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- pharisaical — of or relating to the Pharisees.
- phenylamine — aniline.
- philanderer — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- philatelist — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- philhellene — a friend or supporter of the Greeks.
- philippians — an Epistle written by Paul to the Christian community in Philippi. Abbreviation: Phil.
- philippines — an archipelago of 7083 islands in the Pacific, SE of China: formerly (1898–1946) under the guardianship of the U.S.; now an independent republic. 114,830 sq. mi. (297,410 sq. km). Capital: Manila.
- philistines — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
- phillipsite — a zeolite mineral, similar to stilbite but with potassium replacing some of the calcium.
- philoctetes — Classical Mythology. a noted archer and squire of Hercules. Bitten by a snake and abandoned on an island because of his festering wound, he was at length brought by the Greeks to Troy, where he recovered and later killed Paris.
- philography — the collecting of autographs, especially those of famous persons.
- philologian — a philologist.
- philologist — the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
- philomathic — relating to or enjoying the process of learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge
- philosopher — a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields.
- philosophes — any of the popular French intellectuals or social philosophers of the 18th century, as Diderot, Rousseau, or Voltaire.
- philosophic — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- phlebotomic — of or noting phlebotomy.
- phoenixlike — having a resemblance to a phoenix in the sense of re-emerging and beginning again
- phonofiddle — an upright, one-stringed musical instrument which also has a horn that acts as an amplifier, played with a bow whilst held between the knees
- phonologist — a specialist in phonology.
- photoflight — pertaining to a flight made for the purpose of aerial photography.
- photophilic — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
- phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
- phycologist — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- phylacteric — of or relating to phylacteries
- phyllomania — the production of leaves in abnormal numbers or places.
- phyllotaxis — phyllotaxy.
- physicalise — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physicalism — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- physicalist — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- physicality — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.