11-letter words containing p, t, y, e
- 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.
- pasty-faced — having a pale, unhealthy, sallow complexion: an awkward, pasty-faced youth.
- patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
- patty shell — a cup-shaped shell of light, flaky pastry, for serving vegetable, fish, or meat mixtures, usually with a sauce.
- pay dispute — a disagreement between workers and employers concerning salary
- pecan patty — a praline made with pecans.
- pectinately — in a pectinate manner
- peculiarity — a trait, manner, characteristic, or habit that is odd or unusual.
- pellucidity — allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent.
- pelotherapy — the application of mud to the body for therapeutic purposes
- penalty box — an enclosed space adjacent to the rink for penalized players, the penalty timekeeper, the game timekeeper, and the official scorer.
- pendulosity — the state or quality of being pendulous
- penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
- pennyweight — (in troy weight) a unit of 24 grains or 1/20 of an ounce (1.56 grams). Abbreviation: dwt, pwt.
- pentacyclic — having five rings of atoms
- pentadactyl — having five digits on each hand or foot.
- pentagynous — (of plants) belonging to the order Pentagynia, characterized by the presence of five styles or pistils
- pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
- pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
- pentastylos — a pentastyle building, as a classical temple.
- pepperminty — having the flavour, scent, or colour of peppermint
- perceptibly — capable of being perceived; recognizable; appreciable: a perceptible change in his behavior.
- peregrinity — foreignness; strangeness; the quality of being peregrine
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- perinatally — during the perinatal period; before birth
- periodicity — the character of being periodic; the tendency to recur at regular intervals.
- peristylium — a peristyle.
- permanently — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- permittedly — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- perpetually — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- phagocytize — (of a phagocyte) to devour (material).
- phagocytose — phagocytize.
- phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
- phenix city — a city in E Alabama, on the Chattahoochee River.
- phlebectomy — the surgical excision of a vein or part of a vein