12-letter words containing c, a, e, s, p, i
- 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.
- 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.
- picnic races — horse races for amateur riders held in rural areas
- 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.
- 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.
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
- 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
- pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
- postaccident — occurring after an accident
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- 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-issuance — the act of issuing.
- pre-socratic — of or relating to the philosophers or philosophical systems of the period before the Socratic period.
- preachership — the office of a preacher
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- preclassical — occurring or existing in, produced during or characteristic of a period prior to the classical period
- predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
- preeclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
- presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
- prescribable — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
- psi particle — any of a family of mesons consisting of a charmed quark and a charmed antiquark.