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12-letter words containing c, a, p, e

  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • placentology — the scientific study of the placenta
  • 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.
  • plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
  • plano-convex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
  • planoconcave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
  • plant-cutter — any of several South American, passerine birds of the family Phytotomidae, superficially resembling grosbeaks but having serrated edges on the bill that aid in cutting leaves and other plant food.
  • plaster cast — any piece of sculpture reproduced in plaster of Paris.
  • platanaceous — relating to the family Platanaceae
  • plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
  • play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
  • play clothes — clothes that are suitable for playing in
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • plenum cable — (hardware)   Cable that can be (legally) installed in the plenum (the space between a ceiling and the floor above it). Such cable is (usually) teflon-coated so that it will not give off toxic fumes when burned. In some parts of the world such cable is required by law.
  • plumulaceous — having the texture of down.
  • pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
  • pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
  • pneumococcal — a bacterium, Diplococcus pneumoniae, causing lobar pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, as pericarditis and meningitis.
  • poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
  • 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.
  • polar circle — either the Arctic or the Antarctic Circle.
  • pole compass — (formerly) a ship's compass elevated on a wooden pole to isolate it as much as possible from local magnetism.
  • pole dancing — Pole dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances around a pole in a sexy way.
  • 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.
  • politicalize — to cause to be political; color with politics.
  • politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
  • poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
  • polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • polynucleate — having many nuclei.
  • ponce around — If you say that someone is poncing around or poncing about, you mean that they are not doing something properly, quickly, or seriously.
  • pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • popocatepetl — a volcano in S central Mexico, SE of Mexico City. 17,887 feet (5450 meters).
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcelainize — to make into or coat with porcelain or something resembling porcelain.
  • porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
  • porcelaneous — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
  • porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
  • porcellanize — to bake into porcelain
  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • postaccident — occurring after an accident
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
  • postfracture — taking place after a fracture
  • power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
  • power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
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