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13-letter words containing pen

  • penny-pincher — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
  • pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • penobscot bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in S Maine. 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • pensacola bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, in NW Florida. About 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • pentadactylic — having five digits on each limb
  • pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • pentasyllabic — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
  • pentasyllable — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
  • pentatonicism — the use of a five-tone scale.
  • penthemimeral — (of a caesura) occurring after the first penthemimer of a poetic line, i.e. in the middle of the third foot
  • pentobarbital — a barbiturate, C 1 1 H 1 7 N 2 O 3 , used as a hypnotic and as a sedative.
  • penultimately — in penultimate position; lastly except for one
  • perpend stone — a large stone that passes through a wall from one side to the other
  • perpendicular — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
  • peter's pence — an annual tax or tribute, originally of a penny, paid by certain English property owners to the papal see until the Reformation.
  • pinch pennies — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
  • quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • sesquiterpene — (originally) any of a class of monocyclic hydrocarbons of the formula C 10 H 16 , obtained from plants.
  • spend a penny — to urinate
  • spenta amesha — Amesha Spenta.
  • spenta mainyu — the good and creative spirit that is the offspring of Ahura Mazda.
  • submarine pen — a bunker that prevents submarines from bombs
  • suspensefully — in a suspenseful manner
  • two penn'orth — During a discussion about something, if you have your two penn'orth or put in your two penn'orth, you add your own opinion.
  • twopenceworth — an unwanted or unsolicited idea or opinion
  • uncompensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • underspending — the process or fact of spending less than one can afford or is allocated
  • unrecompensed — to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
  • unrepentantly — repenting; penitent; experiencing repentance.
  • unrepentingly — in an unrepenting or impenitent manner
  • wappenshawing — (formerly) the reviewing of the men under arms in a Scottish lordship or district
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