10-letter words starting with pen
- pen pusher — pencil pusher.
- pen-friend — A pen-friend is someone you write friendly letters to and receive letters from, although the two of you may never have met.
- pen-pusher — pencil pusher.
- penal code — the aggregate of statutory enactments dealing with crimes and their punishment.
- penannular — having the shape or design of an incomplete circle.
- pencil box — a shallow covered box, usually of pasteboard, for holding pencils and crayons: used by children as an item of school equipment.
- pendelikon — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens: noted for its fine marble. 3640 feet (1110 meters).
- pendencies — the state or time of being pending, undecided, or undetermined, as of a lawsuit awaiting settlement.
- pendentive — any of several spandrels, in the form of spherical triangles, forming a transition between the circular plan of a dome and the polygonal plan of the supporting masonry.
- penderecki — Krzysztof [kshish-tawf] /ˈkʃɪʃ tɔf/ (Show IPA), born 1933, Polish composer.
- penelopize — to act or behave like Penelope, the wife of Odysseus
- penetrable — capable of being penetrated.
- penetralia — the innermost parts of a building
- penetrance — the frequency, expressed as a percentage, with which a particular gene produces its effect in a group of organisms. Compare expressivity (def 2).
- penetrancy — the quality of being penetrant
- penetrator — to pierce or pass into or through: The bullet penetrated the wall. The fog lights penetrated the mist.
- penguinery — a group, colony, or enclosure of penguins
- penicillin — any of several antibiotics of low toxicity, produced naturally by molds of the genus Penicillium and also semisynthetically, having a bactericidal action on many susceptible Gram-positive or Gram-negative cocci and bacilli, some also being effective against certain spirochetes.
- peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
- penis envy — the repressed wish of a female to possess a penis.
- penitently — feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite.
- penmanship — the art of handwriting; the use of the pen in writing.
- penn hills — a town in W Pennsylvania.
- pennaceous — having the texture of a penna; not downy.
- pennsauken — a township in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- penny ante — a game of poker in which the ante or limit is a very small amount, as one cent
- penny post — (formerly) any of various postal systems delivering mail for a penny a letter.
- penny-ante — involving a trifling sum of money; small in amount: a penny-ante investment.
- penny-wise — greatly concerned with saving small sums of money
- pennycress — any of several plants belonging to herbs of the genus Thlaspi, of the mustard family, especially T. arvense, of Europe, bearing somewhat round, flat pods.
- pennyroyal — an aromatic Old World plant, Mentha pulegium, of the mint family, having clusters of small purple flowers and yielding a pungent essential oil used medicinally and as an insect repellent.
- pennyworth — as much as may be bought for a penny.
- penologist — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- pensionary — a pensioner.
- pensioneer — to canvas votes by promising higher pensions
- pensionnat — a simple boarding house or small hotel in France
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- pentameter — a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.
- pentaploid — having a chromosome number that is five times the haploid number.
- pentapodic — (of a poetic line or verse) having five metrical feet
- pentapolis — a group or federation of five cities; esp in reference to various ancient (Biblical and Classical) federations of five cities or towns
- pentaprism — a prism that has five faces, a pair of which are at 90° to each other; a ray entering one of the pair emerges from the other at an angle of 90° to its original direction: used especially in single-lens reflex cameras to reverse images laterally and reflect them to the viewfinder.
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- pentaquark — a subatomic particle consisting of four quarks and one antiquark
- pentaquine — a synthetic antimalarial drug, C18H27N3O, used chiefly in the form of its phosphate
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- pentastome — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
- pentastyle — having five columns.
- pentateuch — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
- pentathlon — an athletic contest comprising five different track and field events and won by the contestant gaining the highest total score.
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