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11-letter words containing p, y, r, e, n

  • opportunely — appropriate, favorable, or suitable: an opportune phrase for the occasion.
  • overpayment — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
  • oxymorphone — a potent semisynthetic morphine-derived narcotic analgesic, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 4 , used as a substitute for morphine.
  • oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
  • panegyrical — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
  • panegyricon — a collection of sermons
  • panty liner — a pad worn inside a woman's underwear for feminine hygiene purposes such as absorbing light menstrual flow, daily vaginal discharge, etc
  • paper money — currency in paper form, such as government and bank notes, as distinguished from metal currency.
  • para-cymene — a colorless liquid, C 1 0 H 1 4 , derived from benzene, found in various essential oils, and obtained as a by-product of papermaking.
  • 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
  • party liner — a person who follows a party line, especially the Communist Party line.
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • pecuniarily — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • perinatally — during the perinatal period; before birth
  • permanently — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
  • 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.
  • pertinacity — the quality of being pertinacious; persistence.
  • petitionary — of the nature of or expressing a petition.
  • phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
  • pilferingly — in the manner of a pilferer
  • pioneer day — a legal holiday in Utah on July 24 to commemorate Brigham Young's founding of Salt Lake City in 1847.
  • platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
  • 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.
  • policyowner — policyholder.
  • poltroonery — a wretched coward; craven.
  • polycentric — having many centers, especially of power or importance: the polycentric world of banking.
  • polynuclear — having many nuclei.
  • polystyrene — a clear plastic or stiff foam, a polymer of styrene, used chiefly as an insulator in refrigerators and air conditioners.
  • ponderingly — in a pondering manner
  • ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
  • ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
  • pondicherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
  • potteringly — in a pottering fashion, slowly
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • precedently — in a precedent or preceding fashion, beforehand
  • predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
  • preliminary — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • premonetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
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