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

  • 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.
  • personation — to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
  • personified — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
  • personifies — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
  • persorption — the deep penetration of a liquid into a highly porous solid, resulting in an intimate mixture.
  • pertinacity — the quality of being pertinacious; persistence.
  • pescatarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
  • pescetarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
  • pet sitting — the act of caring for a pet in its own home while the owner is away.
  • petalomania — the condition in which a flower has proportionately more petals than is normal
  • petit point — a small stitch used in embroidery. Compare gros point (def 1), tent stitch.
  • petitionary — of the nature of or expressing a petition.
  • petitionist — a person who petitions or makes appeals or requests
  • petting zoo — a zoo, or a part of a larger zoo, where children may hold and stroke and sometimes feed small or young animals
  • phagedaenic — relating to or having the characteristics of phagedaena
  • phainopepla — a crested passerine bird, Phainopepla nitens, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • phanerozoic — the eon comprising the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras.
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • pheneticist — a person who makes classifications in the field of biology according to phenetic criteria
  • phenetidine — a colorless organic liquid, C 8 H 1 1 NO, used chiefly in its para form (para-phenetidine) in the synthesis of phenacetin, dyes, and other compounds.
  • phenix city — a city in E Alabama, on the Chattahoochee River.
  • phentermine — a white, crystalline powder, phenyl-tertiary-butylamine hydrochloride, soluble in water and alcohol, that stimulates the central nervous system and elevates the systolic blood pressure: used chiefly in the treatment of obesity.
  • phenylamine — aniline.
  • philanderer — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
  • philhellene — a friend or supporter of the Greeks.
  • 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.
  • phoenixlike — having a resemblance to a phoenix in the sense of re-emerging and beginning again
  • phonematics — phonemics.
  • phonemicize — to transcribe into phonemic symbols.
  • phonetastic — (communications)   A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
  • phonetician — a specialist in phonetics or in some aspect of phonetics.
  • phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
  • phoneticize — to represent (speech) in writing by means of a system in which individual symbols correspond regularly with speech sounds.
  • 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
  • photic zone — the upper layer of a body of water delineated by the depth to which enough sunlight can penetrate to permit photosynthesis.
  • photoionize — to cause to undergo or to undergo photoionization
  • phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
  • phycophaein — a brownish pigment which is found in seaweed
  • phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
  • piano piece — a piece of music played on the piano
  • piano tuner — a person who tunes pianos and sometimes other keyboard instruments.
  • picket line — a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.
  • picnic site — an attractive place for picnics
  • piebaldness — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
  • pied-piping — the principle that a noun phrase may take with it the rest of a prepositional phrase or a larger noun phrase in which it is contained, when moved in a transformation. For example, when the interrogative pronoun is moved to initial position, other words are moved too, as in to whom did you speak?
  • piedmontese — a native or inhabitant of Piedmont, Italy.
  • piedmontite — a mineral, similar to epidote but containing manganese: found in schists and manganese ores.
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