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12-letter words containing c, a, p, i, t, l

  • paleoclimate — the climate of some former period of geologic time.
  • palification — the act of fortifying something with stakes
  • palimpsestic — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
  • papistically — in the manner of the Roman Catholic Church or a Roman Catholic
  • paralation c — Paralation embedded in C. Under development.
  • paroccipital — of or relating to the part of the skull next to the mastoid process; paramastoid
  • parochialist — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
  • participable — capable of being shared.
  • particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
  • particularly — in a particular or to an exceptional degree; especially: He read it with particularly great interest.
  • particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
  • patent cliff — a potential sharp drop in sales and revenue for a company when one of its patents expires: the looming patent cliffs faced by pharmaceutical firms.
  • pathetically — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • pathological — of or relating to pathology.
  • patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
  • pauciloquent — using few words in speech or conversation
  • pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
  • pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
  • penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
  • perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • perichaetial — denoting the leaves in mosses that surround the archegonia and, later, the base of the sporophyte
  • perimetrical — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
  • perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
  • pestological — relating to pestology
  • phallocratic — relating to a male, or the beliefs assumed by such, who assumes authority over females due to his maleness
  • phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • pharmacolite — hydrous calcium arsenate, 2CaO⋅As 2 O 5 ⋅5H 2 O, formed by natural alteration of mineral deposits containing arsenopyrite and arsenical ores of cobalt and silver.
  • phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  • photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
  • photovoltaic — of or relating to the photovoltaic effect.
  • 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.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • picnic table — table-and-bench structure used outdoors
  • 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.
  • pictorialize — to make pictorial; illustrate or represent with or as if with pictures.
  • picture rail — bar from which pictures are hung
  • pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
  • pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
  • pitch a tale — to tell a story, usually of a fantastic nature
  • placentation — Anatomy, Zoology. the formation of a placenta. the manner of placement or construction of a placenta.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • 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.
  • plagiotropic — growing more or less divergent from the vertical.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
  • plastic arts — arts producing works or effects that are three-dimensional, as sculpture or ceramics
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