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12-letter words containing a, p, i, c, o

  • pteroic acid — a crystalline acid found in spinach
  • puerto rican — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
  • pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • punctulation — the state of being punctulate
  • puncturation — the act of puncturing
  • punditocracy — influential media pundits collectively.
  • purification — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
  • putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
  • pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
  • pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
  • pyromaniacal — a compulsion to set things on fire.
  • quadraphonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
  • quadriphonic — quadraphonic.
  • quadrophonic — Alternative spelling of quadraphonic.
  • radiator cap — a cap in the opening of a device for cooling an internal-combustion engine, through which coolant liquid can be added
  • reciprocally — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
  • reciprocated — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • reciprocates — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • reciprocator — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • recuperation — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
  • reoccupation — a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation: Her occupation was dentistry.
  • retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
  • rhizocarpous — having the root perennial but the stem annual, as perennial herbs.
  • road pricing — Road pricing is a system of making drivers pay money for driving on certain roads by electronically recording the movement of vehicles on those roads.
  • rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
  • sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
  • scalp lotion — A scalp lotion is a liquid medication for the treatment of scalp conditions and disorders.
  • scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
  • scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • schizocarpic — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
  • 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.
  • scopophiliac — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scoptophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
  • scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
  • scrophularia — a member of a genus of flowering plants which have a square stem and are known as figworts
  • scsi adaptor — (hardware)   (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's bus (e.g. PCI, ISA, PCMCIA) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering. Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface".
  • sea scorpion — scorpionfish.
  • semitropical — subtropical.
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
  • sociographic — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
  • sophisticate — a sophisticated person.
  • sophomorical — characteristic of a sophomore
  • spaciousness — containing much space, as a house, room, or vehicle; amply large.
  • sparcstation — (computer)   A family of workstations from Sun Microsystems based on the SPARC architecture. Models include the SPARCStation 1, 1+, SLC, SPARCStation ELC, IPX, SPARCStation 5, SPARCStation 10 and SPARCStation 20.
  • spasmophilic — of or noting spasmophilia.
  • special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
  • speciational — relating to speciation
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