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

  • proclamation — something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
  • proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
  • produce race — a race for the offspring of parents identified or characterized at the time of nomination.
  • producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
  • product mark — a trademark used on only one product.
  • productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • programmatic — of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling program music.
  • prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • propaedeutic — pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction.
  • propanedioic — malonic.
  • proper class — a class which cannot itself be a member of other classes
  • prophylactic — defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug.
  • proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
  • prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
  • 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.
  • prosodically — in a prosodic manner
  • prostacyclin — a prostaglandin, C 2 0 H 3 2 O 5 , that specifically inhibits the formation of blood clots.
  • protactinium — a radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Pa; atomic number: 91.
  • protectorate — the relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls.
  • protein-coat — the coiled or polyhedral structure, composed of proteins, that encloses the nucleic acid of a virus.
  • proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
  • protoplasmic — Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
  • prototypical — the original or model on which something is based or formed.
  • protreptical — didactic
  • protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
  • protuberancy — protuberance.
  • provincially — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
  • pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
  • psychography — the supposed writing of a spirit or medium
  • pterocarpous — having winged fruit.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pyrocatechol — catechol.
  • 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
  • rappahannock — a river flowing SE from N Virginia into the Chesapeake Bay: Civil War battle 1863. 185 miles (300 km) long.
  • 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.
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