12-letter words containing a, t, s, n, i, l
- palynologist — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
- pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- passionately — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- patent still — a type of still in which the distillation is continuous
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- penthesileia — the daughter of Ares and queen of the Amazons, whom she led to the aid of Troy. She was slain by Achilles
- pestilential — producing or tending to produce pestilence.
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- pilot signal — a signal, as a flag or light, used to request a pilot.
- piss-elegant — displaying a contrived, often pretentious, sophistication, opulence, etc.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plane strain — Plane strain is a two-dimensional state of strain in which all the shape changes of a material happen on a single plane.
- planetesimal — one of the small celestial bodies that, according to one theory (planetesimal hypothesis) were fused together to form the planets of the solar system.
- plasteriness — the state of being made of or resembling plaster
- plastination — a technique for embalming bodies by impregnating whole organs with silicon polymers
- plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
- plug casting — bait casting in which a plug is used as the lure.
- poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
- polysynaptic — having or involving more than one synapse.
- positionally — in terms of position, from a positional point of view
- postal union — an international agreement on postal rates and services.
- postcolonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
- postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- postillation — the writing or preaching of postils
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
- postvaccinal — occurring after a vaccine
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- presentially — in a presential way
- presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- prostacyclin — a prostaglandin, C 2 0 H 3 2 O 5 , that specifically inhibits the formation of blood clots.
- quasineutral — not taking part or giving assistance in a dispute or war between others: a neutral nation during World War II.
- questionable — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- questionably — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- reading list — a list of sources (recommended by a teacher or university lecturer) which provide additional or background information on a subject being studied
- reinstalment — a further or new instalment
- relationless — having no family relations
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- relativeness — the state or fact of being relative.
- restrainable — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- royal tennis — court tennis.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- saddle joint — (on a sill, coping, or the like) a vertical joint raised above the level of the washes on each side.
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- sailing boat — sailboat.
- sailing date — the date that a ship or boat departs on a sailing voyage
- saint albans — a city in W Hertfordshire, in SE England: Norman cathedral; battles of Wars of the Roses 1455, 1461.