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

  • penciliform — having a pencillike shape.
  • penetrating — able or tending to penetrate; piercing; sharp: a penetrating shriek; a penetrating glance.
  • penetration — the act or power of penetrating.
  • penetrative — tending to penetrate; piercing.
  • pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
  • penthemimer — a unit in poetry consisting of two and a half metrical feet
  • pentium pro — (processor)   (Known as "P6" during development) Intel's successor to the Pentium processor, in development Jan 1995, generally available 1995-11-01. The P6 has an internal RISC architecture with a CISC-RISC translator, 3-way superscalar execution, and out-of order execution (or "speculative execution", which Intel calls "Dynamic Execution"). It also features branch prediction and register renaming, and is superpipelined (14 stages). The P6 is made as a two-chip assembly: the first chip is the CPU and 16 kilobyte first-level cache (5.5 million transistors) and the other is a 256 (or 512) kilobyte second-level cache (15 million transistors). The first version has a clock rate of 133 Mhz and consumes about 20W of power. It is about twice as fast as the 100 MHz Pentium. The original 0.35 micron versions of the Pentium Pro released on 1995-11-01 run at 150 and 166 Mhz for desktop machines and up to 200 Mhz for servers. Heat disspation is about 20 Watts. The Pentium Pro is optimised for 32-bit software and runs 16-bit software slower than the original Pentium. The successor was the Pentium II.
  • pepper mill — a small handheld device for storing and grinding peppercorns.
  • pepperminty — having the flavour, scent, or colour of peppermint
  • perceivable — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
  • perceivably — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
  • perceivedly — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
  • perceptible — capable of being perceived; recognizable; appreciable: a perceptible change in his behavior.
  • perceptibly — capable of being perceived; recognizable; appreciable: a perceptible change in his behavior.
  • perceptions — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • perchloride — the chloride of any particular element or group with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
  • perciatelli — a tubular pasta in long, straight pieces, resembling thick spaghetti.
  • percipience — perceiving or capable of perceiving.
  • percolation — the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
  • perduellion — high treason
  • perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
  • peregrinate — to travel or journey, especially to walk on foot.
  • peregrinity — foreignness; strangeness; the quality of being peregrine
  • perennation — the survival of a plant through the winter or dry season
  • perennially — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
  • perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
  • perfectible — capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.
  • perforation — a hole, or one of a series of holes, bored or punched through something, as those between individual postage stamps of a sheet to facilitate separation.
  • perforative — that perforates readily
  • pericardiac — of or relating to the pericardium.
  • pericardial — of or relating to the pericardium.
  • pericardium — the membranous sac enclosing the heart.
  • pericentral — arranged around a centre
  • pericentric — the point at which a heavenly body orbiting around a primary other than the earth or sun is closest to the primary.
  • perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
  • periclitate — exposed to danger
  • pericranium — the outer periosteum of the cranium.
  • peridesmium — the membrane of cellular tissue surrounding a ligament
  • perigastric — located near or around the gastric system (predominantly the stomach)
  • perigenesis — the name given by Haeckel to a theory of reproduction positing that dynamic life force is transmitted from one generation to the next
  • periglacial — occurring or operating adjacent to the margin of a glacier.
  • perigordian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an Upper Paleolithic cultural epoch in southern France, especially of the Périgord region.
  • perihepatic — surrounding the liver; located around the liver
  • peril point — the lower limit of a tariff on a commodity at which import of that commodity would have a seriously adverse effect on the local producers.
  • perilla oil — a light yellow oil, obtained from the seeds of mints of the genus Perilla, used in Asia as a cooking oil and elsewhere in the manufacture of varnish, printing ink, and artificial leather.
  • perinatally — during the perinatal period; before birth
  • perinephric — the capsule of connective tissue that envelops the kidney.
  • perineurium — the sheath of connective tissue that encloses a bundle of nerve fibers.
  • perinuclear — situated near or occurring around the nucleus.
  • period pain — Period pain is the pain that some women have when they have a monthly period.
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