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12-letter words containing a, e, l, u, r

  • over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
  • overpopulate — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
  • palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
  • pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
  • paralanguage — vocal features that accompany speech and contribute to communication but are not generally considered to be part of the language system, as vocal quality, loudness, and tempo: sometimes also including facial expressions and gestures.
  • parlor house — (especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries) a brothel with a comfortable, often elaborately decorated parlor for the reception of clients.
  • parlour game — A parlour game is a game that is played indoors by families or at parties, for example a guessing game.
  • particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • pasture land — grassland used for grazing
  • patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • pearl primusPearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
  • pearly queen — the female London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • perceptually — of, relating to, or involving perception.
  • percussional — of or relating to percussion
  • permaculture — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
  • perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
  • perpetualist — someone who holds to any form of perpetualism
  • perpetuality — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • petrol gauge — a gauge that indicates the amount of petrol left in the tank of a vehicle
  • photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
  • picture rail — bar from which pictures are hung
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plant-cutter — any of several South American, passerine birds of the family Phytotomidae, superficially resembling grosbeaks but having serrated edges on the bill that aid in cutting leaves and other plant food.
  • plate armour — armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century
  • pluriliteral — (in Hebrew grammar) containing more than three letters in the root
  • pole vaulter — A pole vaulter is an athlete who performs the pole vault.
  • polyurethane — a thermoplastic polymer containing the group NHCOO: used for padding and insulation in furniture, clothing, and packaging, and in the manufacture of resins for adhesives, elastomers, and fillers.
  • popular vote — the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualified voters, as opposed to that made by the electoral college. Compare electoral vote.
  • porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
  • porcelaneous — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • pre-cultural — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
  • pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
  • preauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
  • precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
  • preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
  • prelingually — in a prelingual manner
  • premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • premium deal — a commercial transaction in which a special incentive or bonus is offered
  • premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
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