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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
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