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12-letter words containing a, p, e, l, t

  • prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
  • proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
  • protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
  • protreptical — didactic
  • providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • psi particle — any of a family of mesons consisting of a charmed quark and a charmed antiquark.
  • ptyalectasis — spontaneous or surgical dilatation of a salivary duct.
  • pulp plaster — plaster containing shredded wood fiber.
  • 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.
  • purple heart — a medal awarded for wounds received in action against an enemy or as a direct result of an act of the enemy.
  • purple patch — If someone, especially a sports player or team, goes through a purple patch, they are very successful or lucky for a period.
  • purple state — a state of the U.S. in which the Democratic and Republican candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election: the swing states of Ohio and Indiana.
  • pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
  • pyrocatechol — catechol.
  • pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
  • 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.
  • quartz plate — a carefully cut quartz crystal that is piezoelectrically active. Compare crystal (def 10).
  • 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.
  • recapitalize — to renew or change the capital of.
  • recapitulate — to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
  • receptacular — having the nature of, or serving as, a receptacle
  • receptaculum — a vessel, receptacle or container
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • replantation — to plant again.
  • repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
  • repromulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • reputability — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
  • 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.
  • reputatively — according to reckoning; by repute; putatively
  • retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
  • retail price — amount sth costs in shops
  • retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
  • rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
  • rotten apple — You can use rotten apple to talk about a person who is dishonest and therefore causes a lot of problems for the group or organization they belong to.
  • rubber plant — a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant.
  • saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
  • saint phalle — Niki de [nik-ee duh;; French nee-kee duh] /ˈnɪk i də;; French niˈki də/ (Show IPA), 1930–2002, French sculptor and painter.
  • sales report — a periodical report made by a salesperson to a manager giving details of amounts sold, existing and new accounts, etc
  • saltpetreman — a supplier of saltpetre
  • sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
  • sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
  • saw palmetto — a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth.
  • scatter plot — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
  • scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • scratchplate — a plastic or metal plate attached to the front of a guitar to protect it from pick scratches
  • sea elephant — elephant seal.
  • seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
  • seed capital — small sum invested in new business
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