Phrase Hound found 15 phrases and 13 compound words that contain penal. The most common are listed below. Open penal in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 15
- penal colonyA colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of criminals, typically where free labor is desperately scarce.
- penal substitutionThe theory of atonement which holds that Jesus died on the Cross in place of human sinners.
- penal codeSynonym of criminal code: A document which compiles all, or a significant amount of, a particular jurisdiction's criminal law.
- penal codesplural of penal code: A document which compiles all, or a significant amount of, a particular jurisdiction's criminal law.
- penal coloniesplural of penal colony: A colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of criminals, typically where free labor is desperately scarce.
- penal lawCriminal law.
- penal lawsplural of penal law: Criminal law.
- penal noticeA warning endorsed on a court order, notifying the recipient that they are liable to committal to prison for breach of the order.
- penal populismA process in which the major political parties compete with each other to be tough on crime.
- penal-industrial complexSynonym of prison-industrial complex.
- penal noticesplural of penal notice: A warning endorsed on a court order, notifying the recipient that they are liable to committal to prison for breach of the order.
- penal officerSynonym of prison officer: A person responsible for the supervision and security of prisoners.
- penal officersplural of penal officer: A person responsible for the supervision and security of prisoners.
- penal rosaryA small set of rosary beads, consisting of a single decade of beads with a cross, attached to a ring.
- penal rosariesplural of penal rosary: A small set of rosary beads, consisting of a single decade of beads with a cross, attached to a ring.
Compound words 13
- unpenalNot penal.
- parapenalServing the same functions as the penal system but operating separately.
- nonpenalNot penal.
- penalismA policy of imposing penalties.
- postpenalAfter release from a penal institution.
- penaltiesplural of penalty: A legal sentence.
- penalitiesplural of penality: The quality or state of being penal; liability to punishment.
- penaliseNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of penalize.
- PenalosaA surname from Spanish, an anglicized spelling of Peñalosa
- PenalverA surname from Spanish.