12-letter words containing a, c, t, e, o
- overabstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- overactivate — to make active; cause to function or act.
- overactivity — Excessive activity.
- overcapacity — capacity beyond what is normal, allowed, or desirable.
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
- overdecorate — To decorate or embellish to an excessive degree.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overdramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- overeducated — Having been educated to a higher academic level than is necessary.
- overemphatic — excessive or undue emphasis.
- overmedicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- overreaction — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overreactive — tending to react.
- oxyacetylene — noting or pertaining to a mixture of oxygen and acetylene: an oxyacetylene torch.
- oyster sauce — thick oyster-flavoured Asian relish
- package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
- packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
- packet radio — (communications, radio) The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
- paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
- palaeolithic — the period of the emergence of primitive man and the manufacture of unpolished chipped stone tools, about 2.5 million to 3 million years ago until about 12 000 bc
- paleoclimate — the climate of some former period of geologic time.
- pancytopenia — an abnormally low level of all blood cells
- panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
- pantechnicon — a furniture van; moving van.
- particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- patch pocket — a pocket formed by sewing a piece of shaped material to the outside of a garment.
- patellectomy — the surgical removal of the patella
- pathogenetic — the production and development of disease.
- pauciloquent — using few words in speech or conversation
- pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
- pedantocracy — rule by pedants; a system of government by pedants
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pentacrinoid — a larval crinoid resembling members of the genus Pentacrinus
- pentadecagon — a polygon having 15 angles and 15 sides.
- perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- percutaneous — administered, removed, or absorbed by way of the skin, as an injection, needle biopsy, or transdermal drug.
- perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
- periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
- peristomatic — surrounding a leaf's stoma or stomata
- pernoctation — the act of staying all night in a place, esp for prayer or as a vigil
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- pestological — relating to pestology
- petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
- phagocytoses — phagocytize.
- pharmacolite — hydrous calcium arsenate, 2CaO⋅As 2 O 5 ⋅5H 2 O, formed by natural alteration of mineral deposits containing arsenopyrite and arsenical ores of cobalt and silver.
- phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
- phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- photocathode — a cathode, typically of a cesium or sodium compound, having the property of emitting electrons when activated by light or other radiation.