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12-letter words containing a, r, e, n, i, c

  • paramagnetic — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
  • parascending — parasailing
  • parchmentize — to treat (paper or the like) so that it resembles parchment.
  • participance — participation.
  • pay increase — a rise in pay or salary
  • pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
  • pediatrician — a physician who specializes in pediatrics.
  • pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
  • pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
  • pentacrinoid — a larval crinoid resembling members of the genus Pentacrinus
  • perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • percussional — of or relating to percussion
  • perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
  • pernoctation — the act of staying all night in a place, esp for prayer or as a vigil
  • pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • picnic races — horse races for amateur riders held in rural areas
  • picrocarmine — a red powder containing carmine and picric acid which is used in staining processes
  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • pindaric ode — an ode consisting of several units, each of which is composed of a strophe and an antistrophe of identical form followed by a contrasting epode.
  • pipe cleaner — a short length of twisted flexible wires covered with tufted fabric, used to clean the stem of a smoker's pipe and for various handicrafts.
  • piperacillin — a broad-spectrum semisynthetic penicillin, C 2 3 H 2 6 N 5 NaO 7 , used against certain susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and certain anaerobes, especially P. aeruginosa.
  • pkware, inc. — (company, compression)   The company, founded by Phil Katz in 1986, which produces the PKZIP and PKUNZIP compression tools and libraries for many platforms. Address: 201 E. Pittsburgh Ave., Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204 USA
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcelainize — to make into or coat with porcelain or something resembling porcelain.
  • porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
  • porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
  • porcellanize — to bake into porcelain
  • practitioner — a person engaged in the practice of a profession, occupation, etc.: a medical practitioner.
  • praxinoscope — a toy in which a sequence of images, depicted on the inner surface of a cylinder and reflected in a series of mirrors, gives the illusion of motion as the cylinder rotates
  • pre-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
  • pre-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
  • pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • precipitance — the quality or state of being precipitant.
  • precipitancy — the quality or state of being precipitant.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
  • preordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
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