11-letter words containing pa
- palpitating — to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter: His heart palpitated wildly.
- palpitation — the act of palpitating.
- palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
- palsy-walsy — friendly or appearing to be friendly in a very intimate or hearty way: The police kept their eye on him because he was trying to get palsy-walsy with the security guard.
- pampelmoose — a large citrus fruit
- pamphleteer — a writer or publisher of pamphlets, especially on controversial issues.
- pamphletize — to write a pamphlet.
- pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
- pan-african — of or relating to all African nations or peoples.
- pan-arabism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the Arab nations.
- pan-atheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pan-islamic — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
- pan-slavism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all the Slavic peoples.
- panama city — Panama (def 2).
- panathenaea — 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.
- 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.
- pancake day — Christian calendar: Shrove Tuesday
- pancake ice — newly formed ice in flat pieces too small and thin to obstruct navigation.
- pancarditis — inflammation of the entire heart: the pericardium, myocardium, and endocardium.
- pancha sila — a standard recitation of Hinayanists, including repetitions of formulas and of vows to abstain from anger, lust, cowardice, malevolence, and to abstain from the desire for possessions and unwholesome pleasures.
- 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.
- pancratiast — (in ancient Greece) a person who takes part in a pancratium
- panda plant — a succulent perennial shrub, Kalanchoe tomentosa, of Madagascar, having oblate leaves with gray fuzz and brown blotches on the edges.
- pandemonian — a noisy and disorderly person
- pandemonium — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- panegyrical — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
- panegyricon — a collection of sermons
- panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
- panel point — a joint between two or more members of a truss.
- panel strip — one of a number of strips of wood or metal laid upon the surface of a wall, ceiling, etc., so as to divide it into a number of broad areas, usually in order to conceal joints between sheets of composition material forming the surface.
- panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- panentheism — the belief that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it
- panentheist — someone who believes that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it
- panesthesia — total awareness and perception
- panglossian — characterized by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity.
- pango pango — Pago Pago.
- panhandling — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
- panhellenic — of or relating to all Greeks or to Panhellenism.
- panic alarm — an alarm that can be set off to alert others in the case of an emergency
- panic grass — Also called panic grass. any grass of the genus Panicum, many species of which bear edible grain.
- panicmonger — a person who spreads panic
- panomphaean — understood universally
- panpsychism — a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.
- panpsychist — someone who believes that all matter has an element of consciousness
- panromantic — noting or relating to a person who is romantically attracted to people of all sexual orientations and gender identities: The singer came out as queer and panromantic at age 17.
- panspermist — someone who advocates panspermia
- pantaletted — clothed in pantalets
- pantalooned — wearing pantaloons