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12-letter words containing a, n, t, i, p, l

  • penalization — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
  • penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
  • pentapolitan — of or pertaining to a pentapolis
  • penthesileia — the daughter of Ares and queen of the Amazons, whom she led to the aid of Troy. She was slain by Achilles
  • perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • perenniality — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
  • 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
  • pestilential — producing or tending to produce pestilence.
  • phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
  • picnic table — table-and-bench structure used outdoors
  • 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
  • piss-elegant — displaying a contrived, often pretentious, sophistication, opulence, etc.
  • 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
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plane strain — Plane strain is a two-dimensional state of strain in which all the shape changes of a material happen on a single plane.
  • plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
  • planetesimal — one of the small celestial bodies that, according to one theory (planetesimal hypothesis) were fused together to form the planets of the solar system.
  • plasteriness — the state of being made of or resembling plaster
  • 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
  • platitudinal — platitudinous.
  • platonically — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
  • plug casting — bait casting in which a plug is used as the lure.
  • poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
  • polarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
  • polysynaptic — having or involving more than one synapse.
  • polytonality — the use of more than one key at the same time.
  • populational — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
  • port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
  • positionally — in terms of position, from a positional point of view
  • postal union — an international agreement on postal rates and services.
  • postcolonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
  • postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
  • postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
  • postillation — the writing or preaching of postils
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