11-letter words containing pa
- pauselessly — in a pauseless manner; ceaselessly
- pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
- pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
- 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.
- pay a visit — go to the toilet
- pay dispute — a disagreement between workers and employers concerning salary
- 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.
- payload bay — cargo bay.
- payroll tax — a tax levied against the amount of wages and salaries paid workers.
- pecan patty — a praline made with pecans.
- perihepatic — surrounding the liver; located around the liver
- period pain — Period pain is the pain that some women have when they have a monthly period.
- peripatetic — walking or traveling about; itinerant.
- phase space — a hypothetical space constructed so as to have as many coordinates as are necessary to define the state of a given substance or system.
- plasmapause — the boundary of the plasmasphere, where the particle density decreases very rapidly.
- play a part — act
- pocket park — a very small park or outdoor area for public leisure, especially an urban plaza or courtyard with benches and fountains.
- poles apart — each of the extremities of the axis of the earth or of any spherical body.
- poll parrot — polly.
- pompadoured — styled in a pompadour
- pre-spanish — of or relating to Spain, its people, or their language.
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- prehispanic — Spanish.
- preoccupant — a previous occupant
- preoccupate — to influence or occupy the mind in advance
- prepackaged — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
- preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
- preparative — preparatory.
- preparatory — serving or designed to prepare: preparatory arrangements.
- preparental — prior to becoming a parent: preparental instruction.
- prepatellar — describing a bursa between the skin of the knee and the patella
- preprepared — prepared in advance
- press party — a party given for reporters and photographers exclusively or particularly to get publicity, as for the introduction of a new product, the maiden voyage of a liner, or the like.
- prestonpans — a seaside resort in the Lothian region, in SE Scotland, E of Edinburgh: battle 1745.
- primiparity — a woman who has borne but one child or who is parturient for the first time.
- primiparous — a woman who has borne but one child or who is parturient for the first time.
- principally — chiefly; mainly.
- propagandas — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- propagation — the act of propagating.
- propagative — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- propagatory — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- protopathic — noting or pertaining to a general, nondiscriminating responsiveness to pain or temperature stimuli (opposed to epicritic).
- psychopathy — a mental disorder in which an individual manifests amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- puff pastry — a light, flaky, rich pastry made by rolling dough with butter and folding it to form layers: used for tarts, napoleons, etc.
- put paid to — to end or destroy
- quarterpace — (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only.
- radiopacity — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- raffia palm — any of various palms of the genus Raphia, as R. farinifera of tropical Africa, having pinnate leaves that yield a strong, flexible fiber.
- repaglinide — an oral drug used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, often in combination with metformin.