11-letter words containing p, r, e, a, y
- paraldehyde — a colorless, liquid, cyclic compound, C 6 H 1 2 O 3 , having a disagreeable taste but an agreeable odor, produced by the polymerization of acetaldehyde with sulfuric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of organic chemicals and in medicine as a sedative and hypnotic.
- parasensory — extrasensory.
- parenchymal — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
- partial key — (database) A key which identifies a subset of a set of information items (e.g. database "records"), and which could narrow the subset to one item if other partial key(s) were combined with it.
- party dress — a dress to wear to a party
- party liner — a person who follows a party line, especially the Communist Party line.
- party piece — Someone's party piece is something that they often do to entertain people, especially at parties, for example singing a particular song or saying a particular poem.
- party-giver — a person who gives a party
- passer-byes — a person passing by.
- pastry case — a case made of pastry that is filled with fruit, custard etc to make a tart or flan
- pastry chef — cook who specializes in patisserie
- pastry tube — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
- pear psylla — a small jumping plant louse, Psylla pyricola, originally of Europe, that is a major pest of pears in the eastern U.S.
- pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
- peculiarity — a trait, manner, characteristic, or habit that is odd or unusual.
- pecuniarily — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- pelotherapy — the application of mud to the body for therapeutic purposes
- pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
- perceivably — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- perennially — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
- perinatally — during the perinatal period; before birth
- permanently — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- perpetually — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- person-year — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in a year consisting of a standard number of person-days.
- personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- pertinacity — the quality of being pertinacious; persistence.
- pervasively — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- petitionary — of the nature of or expressing a petition.
- petrography — the branch of petrology dealing with the description and classification of rocks, especially by microscopic examination.
- phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- phylacteric — of or relating to phylacteries
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- pioneer day — a legal holiday in Utah on July 24 to commemorate Brigham Young's founding of Salt Lake City in 1847.
- pirate copy — an illicitly reproduced copy of a DVD, video, book, game, etc
- platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
- play by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play-centre — a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
- polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
- pool player — a person who plays pool
- power alley — either of the two areas in the outfield between the outfielders