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12-letter words containing a, i, r, p, u

  • labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
  • laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
  • leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
  • litmus paper — a strip of paper impregnated with litmus, used as a chemical indicator.
  • liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
  • make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
  • manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
  • manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
  • manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
  • maspar unity — A translator from UNITY to MPL by Martin Huber, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Version 1.0.
  • microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
  • microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
  • microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
  • mitteleuropa — Central Europe.
  • multi-parity — of or relating to a multipara.
  • multipartite — divided into several or many parts; having several or many divisions.
  • nature strip — a grass strip in front of a house between a fence or footpath and a roadway
  • naturopathic — (alternative medicine) Of or pertaining to naturopathy or to naturopaths.
  • neuropathies — Plural form of neuropathy.
  • neuropathist — a specialist in treating diseases of the nervous system; a neurologist
  • neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
  • neurotypical — relating to or showing typical neurological behavior and development: She has one dyslexic and one neurotypical child.
  • nonspiritual — Not spiritual.
  • np-hilarious — (humour)   An algorithm whose complexity is a joke, either literally, as in BogoSort, or metaphorically.
  • old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
  • ophiolatrous — of, relating to, or practising snake-worshipping
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
  • paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
  • parish house — a building used by a church chiefly for administrative and social purposes.
  • parrot tulip — a variety of the cultivated tulip Tulipa gesnerana, having variously colored, often double flowers with fringed petals.
  • parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
  • particularly — in a particular or to an exceptional degree; especially: He read it with particularly great interest.
  • particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
  • passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
  • pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
  • payout ratio — the ratio between dividends paid out and earnings per share of common stock within a time period.
  • pearl primus — Pearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
  • percussional — of or relating to percussion
  • perichaetium — a leafy cluster (bracts) around the base of the reproductive organs of some plants, predominantly mosses
  • periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
  • 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.
  • perpetuating — to make perpetual.
  • perpetuation — to make perpetual.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
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