12-letter words containing a, l, p, e, n
- pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- pre-prandial — You use pre-prandial to refer to things you do or have before a meal.
- pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
- precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
- precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- preclearance — the act of clearing.
- preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
- preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
- prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
- prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
- prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
- preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
- prelapsarian — Theology. occurring before the Fall: the prelapsarian innocence of Eden.
- prelingually — in a prelingual manner
- premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
- premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- 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.
- prenominally — before a noun
- presentially — in a presential way
- presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
- primogenital — relating to primogeniture
- prince royal — the eldest son of a king or queen.
- procellarian — a bird species from the genus Procellaria
- processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- profile plan — a diagrammatic fore-and-aft elevation of the hull of a vessel, showing bow and buttock lines, stations, water lines, diagonals, decks, bulwarks, etc.
- proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
- provableness — the quality of being provable
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- purlin plate — (in a curb roof) a purlin at the top of a lower slope supporting the ends of the upper rafters at the curb.
- quantum leap — Physics. an abrupt transition of a system described by quantum mechanics from one of its discrete states to another, as the fall of an electron in an atom to an orbit of lower energy.
- quindecaplet — a group of 15
- rabbet plane — a plane for cutting rabbets or the like, having a blade set to one side at right angles or diagonally to the direction of motion.
- railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
- ranging pole — a pole for marking positions in surveying
- re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.
- real nappies — resuable cloth nappies
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- renal pelvis — a small funnel-shaped cavity of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter
- replantation — to plant again.
- repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- reputational — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
- rocker panel — body paneling below the passenger compartment of a vehicle.