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11-letter words containing p, s, i, l, a, n

  • palestinian — a native or inhabitant of Palestine.
  • palletising — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
  • palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
  • pan-islamic — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
  • pan-slavism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all the Slavic peoples.
  • pancha sila — a standard recitation of Hinayanists, including repetitions of formulas and of vows to abstain from anger, lust, cowardice, malevolence, and to abstain from the desire for possessions and unwholesome pleasures.
  • panel strip — one of a number of strips of wood or metal laid upon the surface of a wall, ceiling, etc., so as to divide it into a number of broad areas, usually in order to conceal joints between sheets of composition material forming the surface.
  • panglossian — characterized by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity.
  • pantologist — a systematic view of all human knowledge.
  • parasailing — a special parachute, kept open with wing-tip holders to help provide lift, used in parasailing.
  • partialness — being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt.
  • passionless — not feeling or moved by passion; cold or unemotional; calm or detached.
  • paternalism — the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president.
  • paternalist — government: fatherly in style
  • patientless — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
  • patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
  • pelagianism — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
  • pencil case — container for writing implements
  • peninsulate — to cause (land) to become peninsular
  • pensionable — worker: of retirement age
  • personalise — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • personalism — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • personalist — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
  • personalize — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • philippians — an Epistle written by Paul to the Christian community in Philippi. Abbreviation: Phil.
  • phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
  • piano stool — adjustable stool used by pianist
  • piebaldness — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
  • pink salmon — a small Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, distinguished by its small scales and long anal fin and by the bright red spawning coloration of males, occurring from California to Alaska and in waters of Japan: fished commercially and for sport.
  • piston land — A piston land is a raised area of a piston between piston rings.
  • piston slap — the characteristic sound of a seriously worn piston in a cylinder (usually of the engine of a motor car)
  • plain ascii — /playn-as'kee/ flat ASCII.
  • plainstanes — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • planisphere — a map of half or more of the celestial sphere with a device for indicating the part of a given location visible at a given time.
  • plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
  • playstation — (games, hardware)   The leading family of games consoles, from Sony Corporation consisting of the original Playstation (PS1) and the Playstation 2 (PS2). The basic Playstations consist of a small box containing the processor and a DVD reader, with video outputs to connect to a TV, sockets for two game controllers, and a socket for one or two memory cards. The PS2 also has USB sockets. The PS2 can run PS1 software because the PS2's I/O processor is the same as the PS1's CPU.
  • plebeianism — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
  • pleinairism — pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
  • polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
  • pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
  • postcranial — located posterior to the head.
  • postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
  • postlanding — occurring after a landing (of an aircraft, shuttle, etc)
  • postnuptial — subsequent to marriage: postnuptial adjustments.
  • postulating — to ask, demand, or claim.
  • postulation — to ask, demand, or claim.
  • pre-seminal — released before semen is ejaculated
  • precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
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