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12-letter words containing a, l, i, t, o

  • patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
  • 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.
  • pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
  • penalization — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
  • pentapolitan — of or pertaining to a pentapolis
  • perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
  • peritoneally — through the peritoneum
  • perorational — of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a peroration
  • pestological — relating to pestology
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • phallocratic — relating to a male, or the beliefs assumed by such, who assumes authority over females due to his maleness
  • phantom limb — a phenomenon characterized by the experience of pain, discomfort, or other sensation in the area of a missing limb or other body part, as a breast.
  • 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.
  • phentolamine — an alpha blocker, C 1 7 H 1 9 N 3 O, used to reduce hypertensive states caused by a catecholamine excess, as in the treatment of pheochromocytoma.
  • philanthropy — altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, by endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by generosity to other socially useful purposes.
  • 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.
  • phosphatidyl — an atom or group of atoms containing one or more unpaired electrons derived from a phosphatide
  • photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
  • photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
  • photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • photovoltaic — of or relating to the photovoltaic effect.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • pictorialism — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • pictorialist — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • pictorialize — to make pictorial; illustrate or represent with or as if with pictures.
  • pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
  • pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
  • pilot ladder — Jacob's ladder (def 2a).
  • pilot signal — a signal, as a flag or light, used to request a pilot.
  • piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
  • pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
  • placentation — Anatomy, Zoology. the formation of a placenta. the manner of placement or construction of a placenta.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • plagiotropic — growing more or less divergent from the vertical.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • plastic foam — expanded plastic.
  • plastination — a technique for embalming bodies by impregnating whole organs with silicon polymers
  • plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
  • platonically — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
  • play it cool — If you play it cool, you deliberately behave in a calm, unemotional way because you do not want people to know you are enthusiastic or angry about something.
  • play it cozy — to act cautiously so as to avoid risk
  • poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
  • polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • polarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
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