11-letter words containing p, i, n, a, c
- prevacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- price range — the highest and lowest price of a commodity, security, etc., over a given period of time.
- principally — chiefly; mainly.
- prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
- pro-african — Also, Africa. of or from Africa; belonging to the black peoples of Africa.
- pro-vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
- proclaimant — someone who proclaims
- procreation — to beget or generate (offspring).
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- prosaicness — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- protraction — the act of protracting; prolongation; extension.
- provocation — the act of provoking.
- publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
- pump-action — (of a shotgun or rifle) having an action that extracts the empty case, loads, and cocks the piece by means of a hand-operated lever that slides backward and forward; slide-action.
- punctualist — a person who is concerned with points of conduct
- punctuality — the quality or state of being punctual.
- punctuation — 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.
- 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.
- punicaceous — of or relating to the family Punicaceae, containing the pomegranates
- puritanical — very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
- pyrovanadic — of or relating to an acid of vanadium
- radiophonic — a radiotelephone.
- rapscallion — a rascal; rogue; scamp.
- recarpeting — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- reciprocant — a differential invariant
- renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
- replication — a reply; answer.
- ropedancing — the act of dancing on a rope
- scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
- scopolamine — a colorless, syrupy, water-soluble alkaloid, C 1 7 H 2 1 NO 4 , obtained from certain plants of the nightshade family, used chiefly as a sedative and mydriatic and to alleviate the symptoms of motion sickness.
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- scrappiness — made up of scraps or of odds and ends; fragmentary; disconnected.
- sea captain — the master of a seagoing vessel.
- septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
- skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
- snail-paced — slow of pace or motion, like a snail; sluggish.
- spacefaring — space travel
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- spinal cord — the cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column.
- spodomantic — relating to spodomancy
- stepdancing — a dance emphasizing footwork or certain steps instead of other bodily gestures or movement
- stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
- sub-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- suspicional — of or relating to suspicion, especially morbid or insane suspicions.
- swing space — a temporary working environment, used esp while renovations are being carried out
- sycophantic — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- syncopation — Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.