12-letter words containing a, u, t, e, i
- out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
- outdistanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outdistance.
- outdistances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdistance.
- outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
- outside lane — the lane on a motorway where overtaking of other vehicles is permitted and vehicles can travel fastest
- outsider art — art produced by untutored artists working by themselves and for themselves
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overmaturity — (of a tree or forest) the state of having ceased to grow or have commercial value
- pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
- pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pauciloquent — using few words in speech or conversation
- paying guest — lodger
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- perichaetium — a leafy cluster (bracts) around the base of the reproductive organs of some plants, predominantly mosses
- periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
- perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
- perpetualist — someone who holds to any form of perpetualism
- perpetuality — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- perpetuating — to make perpetual.
- perpetuation — to make perpetual.
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- perturbation — the act of perturbing.
- perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- pharmaceutic — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- picture card — face card
- picture rail — bar from which pictures are hung
- picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
- plain turkey — a bustard
- plead guilty — defendant: declare guilt
- pluriliteral — (in Hebrew grammar) containing more than three letters in the root
- pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
- poète maudit — a poet who receives insufficient recognition in his or her own time
- preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- premium-rate — (relating to telephone calls) charged at a higher than standard rate
- pro-equality — the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability: promoting equality of opportunity in the workplace.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- propaedeutic — pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction.
- prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- pterosaurian — a pterosaur
- 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.
- purlin plate — (in a curb roof) a purlin at the top of a lower slope supporting the ends of the upper rafters at the curb.
- putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.