11-letter words containing ai
- neo-dadaist — a minor art movement chiefly of the 1960s reviving some of the objectives of dada but placing emphasis on the importance of the work of art produced rather than on the concept generating the work.
- neo-hebraic — Hebrew as spoken and written since the Diaspora
- net curtain — Net curtains are curtains made of thin cloth that people hang across their windows to stop people outside seeing into their houses in the daytime.
- new britain — the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, in the W central Pacific Ocean. About 14,600 sq. mi. (37,814 sq. km). Capital: Rabaul.
- nonordained — Not ordained.
- nonrailroad — not using or involving a railroad
- nurserymaid — Nursemaid.
- off the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- oillionaire — a millionaire whose wealth is derived from the petroleum industry.
- old-maidish — characteristic of or resembling an old maid.
- on retainer — hired, engaged, etc. by a retainer2 (sense 2)
- on the nail — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- ordainments — Plural form of ordainment.
- overexplain — to explain in too much detail
- overgrainer — someone who overgrains
- overplaided — (of a garment) covered with a design consisting of an overplaid
- oxeye daisy — a composite plant, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, having flowers with white rays and a yellow disk.
- oxtail soup — soup made using the skinned tail of an ox
- pain clinic — a facility specializing in the treatment of pain
- pain relief — techniques concerned with preventing or reducing pain
- painesville — a city in NE Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- painkilling — of or relating to a drug or method of reducing or eliminating pain
- painstaking — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- paint spray — paint bought in a special can which you spray on a surface by pressing a button on the top of the can
- painted cup — any of several semiparasitic plants of the genus Castilleja, of the figwort family, having highly colored dilated bracts about the flowers.
- palk strait — a strait in the Bay of Bengal between SE India and N Sri Lanka, to the N of Adam's Bridge. 40–85 miles (64–137 km) wide.
- panathenaia — a festival in honor of the goddess Athena, celebrated yearly in ancient Athens, with each fourth year reserved for greater pomp, marked by contests, as in athletics and music, and highlighted by a solemn procession to the Acropolis bearing a peplos embroidered for the goddess.
- panathenaic — of or relating to a Panathenaea, a festival in honor of the goddess Athena.
- paper chain — a decorative chain of loops of coloured paper
- paper trail — a written or printed record, as of transactions or judicial opinions, especially when used to incriminate someone.
- paper-train — to train (a pet) to defecate or urinate on sheets of disposable paper.
- parasailing — a special parachute, kept open with wing-tip holders to help provide lift, used in parasailing.
- paris daisy — marguerite (def 1).
- parlourmaid — In former times, a parlourmaid was a female servant in a private house whose job involved serving people at table.
- pay a claim — If an insurer pays a claim, it pays money to a policyholder because a loss or risk occurs against which they were insured.
- pele's hair — volcanic glass thread, usually basaltic, caused by the solidification of exploding or ejected lava in the open air.
- peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
- period pain — Period pain is the pain that some women have when they have a monthly period.
- phainopepla — a crested passerine bird, Phainopepla nitens, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- pharisaical — of or relating to the Pharisees.
- photomosaic — mosaic (def 4).
- pilot raise — a small raise intended to be enlarged later.
- pitch chain — power chain.
- plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
- plain ascii — /playn-as'kee/ flat ASCII.
- plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
- plain tripe — the fatty, inner lining of the first stomach (the rumen) of a steer, calf, hog, or sheep, having a bland taste and used as a food, especially in the preparation of such dishes as haggis, head cheese, etc.
- plain weave — the most common and tightest of basic weave structures in which the filling threads pass over and under successive warp threads and repeat the same pattern with alternate threads in the following row, producing a checkered surface.
- plainstanes — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city