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11-letter words containing p, l, a, n, t

  • peninsulate — to cause (land) to become peninsular
  • penitential — of, pertaining to, proceeding from, or expressive of penitence or repentance.
  • pentactinal — of or relating to a pentact
  • pentacyclic — having five rings of atoms
  • pentadactyl — having five digits on each hand or foot.
  • pentangular — having five angles and five sides; pentagonal.
  • pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
  • pentastylos — a pentastyle building, as a classical temple.
  • pentathlete — an athlete participating or specializing in the pentathlon.
  • pentavalent — having a valence of 5: pentavalent arsenic.
  • pentecostal — of or relating to Pentecost, a Christian festival commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles.
  • pentlandite — a mineral, sulfide of nickel, occurring in the form of bronze-colored granular aggregates, found with pyrrhotite: the principal source of nickel.
  • penultimate — next to the last: the penultimate scene of the play.
  • percolation — the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
  • pericentral — arranged around a centre
  • perinatally — during the perinatal period; before birth
  • periodontal — of or relating to the periodontium.
  • permanently — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
  • 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.
  • petalomania — the condition in which a flower has proportionately more petals than is normal
  • petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
  • phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
  • phallotoxin — any of a group of potent mycotoxins produced by certain mushroom species of the genus Amanita.
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
  • phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
  • phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
  • piano stool — adjustable stool used by pianist
  • pilot plant — an experimental industrial plant in which processes or techniques planned for use in full-scale operation are tested in advance.
  • pinch pleat — a narrow pleat that is usually part of a series at the top of curtains.
  • pinot blanc — any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
  • piston land — A piston land is a raised area of a piston between piston rings.
  • piston slap — the characteristic sound of a seriously worn piston in a cylinder (usually of the engine of a motor car)
  • pitch plane — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • pixellation — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
  • placatingly — in a placating manner
  • plain tripe — the fatty, inner lining of the first stomach (the rumen) of a steer, calf, hog, or sheep, having a bland taste and used as a food, especially in the preparation of such dishes as haggis, head cheese, etc.
  • plainstanes — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
  • plane table — a surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board mounted on adjustable legs, and used in the field for plotting measurements directly
  • plane-table — a drawing board mounted on a tripod, used in the field, with an alidade, for surveying tracts of land.
  • planer tree — a small tree, Planera aquatica, of the elm family, growing in moist ground in the southern U.S., bearing a small, ovoid, nutlike fruit and yielding a compact light-brown wood.
  • planet gear — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • planetarian — a staff member at a planetarium.
  • planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
  • planetology — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • planimetric — the measurement of plane areas.
  • planogamete — a motile gamete.
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