11-letter words containing s, p, e, n, c
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- pantheistic — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- parascender — a person who takes part in parascending
- parascenium — either of two wings flanking and extending forward from the skene of an ancient Greek theater.
- parascience — the study of subjects that are outside the scope of traditional science because they cannot be explained by accepted scientific theory or tested by conventional scientific methods
- parchedness — the state or characteristic of being parched
- patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
- peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
- pearlescent — having an iridescent luster resembling that of pearl; nacreous: healthy skin with a pearlescent glow.
- peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
- pedanticise — to be pedantic
- pedanticism — pedantry.
- pedodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the care and treatment of children's teeth.
- pencil case — container for writing implements
- penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
- pentecostal — of or relating to Pentecost, a Christian festival commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles.
- perceptions — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- perfectness — conforming absolutely to the description or definition of an ideal type: a perfect sphere; a perfect gentleman.
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- persian cat — a long-haired variety of the domestic cat, originally raised in Persia and Afghanistan.
- persistence — the act or fact of persisting.
- persistency — the act or fact of persisting.
- persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
- pescatarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pescetarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pet scanner — a tomographic imaging device that yields visual information about the ongoing activity of the brain: positron-emitting isotopes, incorporated into biologically important compounds, are injected intravenously or administered by inhalation, and the resultant gamma radiation is sensed by detectors and converted into computer-generated images of blood flow, oxygen utilization, glucose uptake, etc.
- pheneticist — a person who makes classifications in the field of biology according to phenetic criteria
- phonematics — phonemics.
- phonetastic — (communications) A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
- phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
- picnic site — an attractive place for picnics
- pinnatisect — (of a leaf) divided in a pinnate manner.
- pinocytoses — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- plane crash — an accident in which an aircraft hits land or water and is damaged or destroyed
- pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
- port neches — a town in SE Texas.
- postconcert — occurring after a concert
- postponence — the act of postponing
- postscenium — a wing on either side of the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theatre where props could be stored and actors could prepare; a parascenium
- pre-scoring — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
- preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
- precedences — act or fact of preceding.
- precentress — a female precentor
- preciseness — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- precognosce — to conduct a preliminary examination of (a witness, a claim) prior to a trial
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- 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.
- prehispanic — Spanish.