12-letter words containing a, l, s, p, i, c
- parochialise — to make parochial.
- parochialism — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- parochialist — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
- pascal-linda — Ian Flockhart, U Edinburgh, 1991. Under development.
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
- perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- pestological — relating to pestology
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
- phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- 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.
- plagiaristic — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plastic arts — arts producing works or effects that are three-dimensional, as sculpture or ceramics
- 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.
- plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
- plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- plug casting — bait casting in which a plug is used as the lure.
- poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
- polariscopic — relating to a polariscope
- police state — a nation in which the police, especially a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
- polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polysaprobic — flourishing in a body of water having a heavy load of decomposed organic matter and almost no free oxygen
- polysyllabic — consisting of several, especially four or more, syllables, as a word.
- polysynaptic — having or involving more than one synapse.
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
- porismatical — porismatic
- post-glacial — after a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
- postbiblical — occurring after the events written about in the Bible, occurring after the Bible was written
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- postcolonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- postvaccinal — occurring after a vaccine
- practicalism — devotion to practical matters.
- practicalist — devotion to practical matters.
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.