11-letter words containing p, r, y, e
- 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.
- peppercorny — the berry of the pepper plant, Piper nigrum, dried and used as a condiment, in pickling, etc.
- pepperminty — having the flavour, scent, or colour of peppermint
- 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.
- perceptibly — capable of being perceived; recognizable; appreciable: a perceptible change in his behavior.
- peregrinity — foreignness; strangeness; the quality of being peregrine
- perennially — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- perinatally — during the perinatal period; before birth
- periodicity — the character of being periodic; the tendency to recur at regular intervals.
- perissology — the use of a superfluity of words; an expression of something using more words than necessary
- peristylium — a peristyle.
- permanently — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- permissibly — that can be permitted; allowable: a permissible amount of sentimentality under the circumstances; Such behavior is not permissible!
- permittedly — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- perpetually — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- perplexedly — in a puzzled way
- persecutory — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persistency — the act or fact of persisting.
- persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
- 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.
- perspicuity — clearness or lucidity, as of a statement.
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- pertinacity — the quality of being pertinacious; persistence.
- perturbedly — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- pervasively — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- peter debye — Peter Joseph Wilhelm [pey-tuh r yoh-sef vil-helm] /ˈpeɪ tər ˈyoʊ sɛf ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1884–1966, Dutch physicist, in the U.S. after 1940: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936.
- petitionary — of the nature of or expressing a petition.
- petroglyphy — the skill or procedure of making rock carvings
- petrography — the branch of petrology dealing with the description and classification of rocks, especially by microscopic examination.
- petty crime — minor offences
- 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
- phyllophore — the terminal bud of a stem, especially of the stem of a palm.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
- phytochrome — a plant pigment that is associated with the absorption of light in the photoperiodic response and that may regulate various types of growth and development.
- phytosterol — Biochemistry. any of various sterols obtained from plants.