11-letter words containing y, n
- 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
- parking bay — a space in a car park designed to be large enough to park a vehicle in
- paronychial — of or relating to paronychia
- party liner — a person who follows a party line, especially the Communist Party line.
- parvanimity — the state or characteristic of being small-minded
- patricianly — a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat.
- patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
- paul bunyan — John, 1628–88, English preacher: author of The Pilgrim's Progress.
- pay station — a machine where you can pay for parking, as in a car park, etc
- payday loan — A payday loan is a small personal cash loan at a very high interest rate, secured by the borrower's next paycheck.
- peace envoy — someone sent on a mission to end conflict or bring peace
- peachy keen — peachy (def 2).
- peachy-keen — peachy (def 2).
- pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
- pecan patty — a praline made with pecans.
- pectinately — in a pectinate manner
- pecuniarily — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- 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
- pennine way — a long-distance footpath extending from Edale, Derbyshire, for 402 km (250 miles) to Kirk Yetholm, Scottish Borders
- penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
- 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.
- 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.
- pharyngitic — relating to the medical condition of pharyngitis that is characterized by pain and swelling of the pharynx
- pharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membrane of the pharynx; sore throat.
- phenix city — a city in E Alabama, on the Chattahoochee River.
- phenylamine — aniline.
- phlyctenule — a small phlyctena
- phonography — phonetic spelling, writing, or shorthand.