11-letter words containing p, l, e, n
- bellerophon — a hero of Corinth who performed many deeds with the help of the winged horse Pegasus, notably the killing of the monster Chimera
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- blanca peak — highest peak of the Sangre de Cristo range, S Colo.: 14,317 ft (4,364 m)
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
- blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
- bontempelli — Massimo. 1878–1960, Italian dramatist, poet, novelist, and critic. His works include the play Nostra Dea (1925) and the novel The Faithful Lover (1953)
- broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
- broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- caesalpinia — designating a family (Caesalpiniaceae) of leguminous trees and shrubs, including the Kentucky coffee tree
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
- campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
- candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
- cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
- capableness — The state or quality of being capable.
- cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
- cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
- captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
- cargo plane — a plane carrying cargo
- celery pine — a New Zealand gymnosperm tree, Phyllocladus trichomanoides, with celerylike shoots and useful wood: family Phyllocladaceae
- centripetal — acting, moving, or tending to move towards a centre
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- chain plate — any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
- chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
- channel-hop — to change television channels repeatedly using a remote control device
- chippendale — Chippendale is a style of furniture from the eighteenth century.
- chloroprene — a colourless liquid derivative of butadiene that is used in making neoprene rubbers; 2-chloro-1,2-butadiene. Formula: CH2:CHCCl:CH2
- chlorphenol — chlorophenol.
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
- clean sweep — an overwhelming victory
- clean up on — to defeat; beat
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- cling peach — a clingstone peach.
- closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- coleopteran — any of the insects of the cosmopolitan order Coleoptera, in which the forewings are modified to form shell-like protective elytra. The order includes the beetles and weevils
- coleopteron — a member of a large order of insects having the front wings modified as hard wing-cases, and comprising the beetles and weevils
- colonoscope — an instrument for examining the colon, consisting of a flexible lighted tube that is inserted in the colon to look for abnormalities and to remove them or take tissue samples
- colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
- commonplace — If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
- companiable — sociable
- compensable — entitled to compensation or capable of being compensated