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12-letter words containing a, s, i, c

  • peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
  • pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • percussional — of or relating to percussion
  • pericarditis — inflammation of the pericardium.
  • periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
  • periphrastic — circumlocutory; roundabout.
  • peristomatic — surrounding a leaf's stoma or stomata
  • perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
  • perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
  • perspicacity — keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration.
  • pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
  • pestological — relating to pestology
  • pet scanning — the action or process of using a PET scanner to obtain an image.
  • phagocytosis — Physiology. the ingestion of a smaller cell or cell fragment, a microorganism, or foreign particles by means of the local infolding of a cell's membrane and the protrusion of its cytoplasm around the fold until the material has been surrounded and engulfed by closure of the membrane and formation of a vacuole: characteristic of amebas and some types of white blood cells.
  • phantasmatic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • phonotactics — the patterns in which the phonemes of a language may combine to form sequences.
  • phosphatidic — of or relating to a phosphatide
  • photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
  • phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
  • physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
  • picnic races — horse races for amateur riders held in rural areas
  • picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
  • pictorialism — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • pictorialist — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
  • piece of ass — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • 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.
  • pirate coast — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
  • plagiaristic — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
  • 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.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plastic arts — arts producing works or effects that are three-dimensional, as sculpture or ceramics
  • plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • plastic foam — expanded plastic.
  • plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
  • plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • plug casting — bait casting in which a plug is used as the lure.
  • poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
  • poison sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus vernix (or Toxicodendron vernix), of swampy areas of the eastern U.S., having pinnate leaves and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to it.
  • polariscopic — relating to a polariscope
  • police state — a nation in which the police, especially a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
  • polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
  • polysaprobic — flourishing in a body of water having a heavy load of decomposed organic matter and almost no free oxygen
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