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12-letter words containing a, p, l, e, s, u

  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
  • press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
  • primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
  • proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
  • 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.
  • pseudoallele — a false allele
  • pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
  • pseudopodial — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
  • pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
  • psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
  • pulp plaster — plaster containing shredded wood fiber.
  • 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.
  • pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
  • quadruplexes — Plural form of quadruplex.
  • raphaelesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of the style of the painter Raphael.
  • red larkspur — a plant, Delphinium nudicaule, of the buttercup family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having orange-red or sometimes yellow flowers.
  • scolopaceous — (of birds or other animals) like a snipe, a shore bird with a straight beak
  • sea purslane — a small chenopodiaceous shrub, Halimione portulacoides, of salt marshes in Eurasia and parts of Africa, having oval leaves and inconspicuous flowers
  • seed capsule — the part of a fruit enclosing the seeds; pericarp
  • semi-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
  • septuplicate — a group, series, or set of seven identical copies (usually preceded by in).
  • sextuplicate — a group, series, or set of six identical copies: The application is to be submitted in sextuplicate.
  • sexual spore — a spore formed after the fusion of gametes and an asexual spore is the result of asexual reproduction
  • sheep laurel — a small E North American plant (Kalmia angustifolia) of the heath family, with pinkish flowers and evergreen leaves poisonous to sheep and other animals
  • shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
  • shuffle play — a facility on a compact disc player that randomly selects a track from one of a number of compact discs
  • simple sugar — monosaccharide.
  • sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • solar plexus — Also called celiac plexus. Anatomy. a network of nerves situated at the upper part of the abdomen, behind the stomach and in front of the aorta.
  • somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
  • south platte — a river flowing NE from central Colorado to the Platte River in W Nebraska. 424 miles (683 km) long.
  • special jury — struck jury.
  • special rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
  • speculatrice — a female speculator
  • spiritualize — to make spiritual.
  • splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
  • sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
  • squeeze play — Baseball. Also called suicide squeeze, suicide squeeze play. a play executed when there is a runner on third base and usually not more than one out, in which the runner starts for home as soon as the pitcher makes a motion to pitch, and the batter bunts. Also called safety squeeze, safety squeeze play. a similar play in which the runner on third base waits until the batter has successfully bunted before trying to score.
  • stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
  • student lamp — a table lamp whose light source can be adjusted in height.
  • sub-parallel — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
  • subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
  • subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
  • subopercular — of or relating to the suboperculum
  • subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.
  • sulfate pulp — wood pulp made by the sulfate process.
  • sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
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