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12-letter words containing a, p, n

  • opsonization — to increase the susceptibility of (bacteria) to ingestion by phagocytes.
  • optimisation — Alternative spelling of optimization.
  • optimization — The design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense.
  • orange pekoe — a black tea composed of the smallest top leaves and grown in India and Ceylon.
  • oregon grape — an evergreen shrub, Mahonia aquifolium, of the barberry family, of the western coast of the U.S., having small blue berries and yellow flowers that are the state flower of Oregon.
  • organography — the description or visual depiction of organs.
  • organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
  • organotropic — designating or of a substance or virus that travels predominantly to a specific organ
  • oropharynxes — Plural form of oropharynx.
  • orthopterans — Plural form of orthopteran.
  • outer planet — any of the four planets with orbits outside the orbit of Mars, namely, the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
  • outplacement — counseling and assistance in finding a new job, provided by a company for an employee who has been or is about to be dismissed.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
  • overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
  • oyster plant — salsify.
  • pacification — to pacify.
  • pack a punch — be powerful
  • pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
  • packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
  • packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
  • packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
  • paedogenesis — sexual reproduction in an animal that retains its larval features
  • page printer — Computers. a high-speed, high-resolution printer that uses a light source, as a laser beam or electrically charged ions, to print a full page of text or graphics at a time.
  • pain barrier — If you say that a sports player has gone through the pain barrier, you mean that he or she is continuing to make a great effort in spite of being injured or exhausted.
  • pain control — methods for the relief and management of pain
  • paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • paint roller — a roller of absorbent material, mounted on a handle, that is rolled in a trough of paint and then rolled over a flat surface to be painted.
  • paintballing — a sport in which players compete in teams or individually to eliminate opponents by hitting them with pellets containing paint from a special gun
  • painted lady — a butterfly, Vanessa cardui, having brownish-black and orange wings and hind wings each with four eyespots, the larvae of which feed on thistles.
  • pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
  • paki-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked physical assaults upon Pakistani immigrants or people of Pakistani descent
  • palaeobotany — the study of fossil plants
  • palatalizing — to articulate (a consonant other than a normal palatal) as a palatal or with relatively more contact between the blade of the tongue and the hard palate, as in certain pronunciations of the l- sound in million.
  • pale-skinned — having pale skin
  • paleo-indian — of, relating to, or characteristic of a New World cultural stage, c22,000–6000 b.c., distinguished by fluted-point tools and cooperative hunting methods.
  • paleontology — the science of the forms of life existing in former geologic periods, as represented by their fossils.
  • palification — the act of fortifying something with stakes
  • palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
  • palingenesis — rebirth; regeneration.
  • pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
  • palm islands — a group of three man-made island systems under construction just off the shore in Dubai, each in the shape of a palm tree
  • palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
  • paludamentum — a cloak worn by officials and military officers of ancient Rome, especially during wartime.
  • palynologist — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
  • pama-nyungan — a family of Australian aboriginal languages, the most widespread within the Australian group of languages.
  • pamperedness — the state of being pampered
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