12-letter words containing a, p, i, c, l, y
- 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
- playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polyarchical — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
- 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.
- practicality — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- prelatically — in the manner of a prelate
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- prickly pear — any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
- primary cell — a cell designed to produce electric current through an electrochemical reaction that is not efficiently reversible, so that the cell when discharged cannot be efficiently recharged by an electric current.
- prince royal — the eldest son of a king or queen.
- principality — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
- prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- prophylactic — defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug.
- prosodically — in a prosodic manner
- prostacyclin — a prostaglandin, C 2 0 H 3 2 O 5 , that specifically inhibits the formation of blood clots.
- prototypical — the original or model on which something is based or formed.
- provincially — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- psychosocial — of or relating to the interaction between social and psychological factors.
- ptyalectasis — spontaneous or surgical dilatation of a salivary duct.
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
- pyromaniacal — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- reciprocally — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- scapulimancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- scripturally — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
- seraphically — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- simplicially — from a simplicial point of view
- special jury — struck jury.
- specifically — in a definite or precise manner: The suspect was not specifically named in the report. More specifically, you will be responsible for half the total cost.
- sphericality — the state of being a sphere
- sporadically — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.
- superciliary — of or relating to the eyebrow.
- supplicatory — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- supply chain — process of manufacture and sale
- trypanocidal — (of a drug, agent, activity, etc) effective in killing trypanosomes
- typicalities — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- unpoetically — in an unpoetic manner
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements