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12-letter words containing c, a, p, r, o, i

  • octastrophic — having or containing eight verses or strophes
  • office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
  • operatically — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
  • optical grep — vgrep
  • optometrical — the practice or profession of examining the eyes, by means of suitable instruments or appliances, for defects in vision and eye disorders in order to prescribe corrective lenses or other appropriate treatment.
  • organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
  • organotropic — designating or of a substance or virus that travels predominantly to a specific organ
  • orographical — relating to the study of mountains
  • orthographic — of or relating to orthography.
  • orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
  • orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
  • oscillograph — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
  • overcapacity — capacity beyond what is normal, allowed, or desirable.
  • overemphatic — excessive or undue emphasis.
  • pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
  • pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
  • packet radio — (communications, radio)   The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
  • paedomorphic — showing signs of paedomorphism
  • paimio chair — a chair developed by Alvar Aalto between 1930 and 1933, having two continuous, ribbonlike elements made of bent laminated birch veneers forming the arms and legs and supporting a sheet of bent plywood that forms the back and seat.
  • pain control — methods for the relief and management of pain
  • panchromatic — sensitive to all visible colors, as a photographic film.
  • pantisocracy — a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal
  • papier colle — collage.
  • parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
  • paralation c — Paralation embedded in C. Under development.
  • paranoically — in a paranoiac manner
  • paroccipital — of or relating to the part of the skull next to the mastoid process; paramastoid
  • parochialise — to make parochial.
  • parochialism — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
  • parochialist — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
  • parochialize — to make parochial.
  • paronomastic — the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
  • participator — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
  • particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
  • patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
  • 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.
  • pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
  • pentacrinoid — a larval crinoid resembling members of the genus Pentacrinus
  • perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • percussional — of or relating to percussion
  • perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
  • periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
  • periodically — recurring at intervals of time: periodic revivals of an interest in handicrafts.
  • periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
  • peristomatic — surrounding a leaf's stoma or stomata
  • pernoctation — the act of staying all night in a place, esp for prayer or as a vigil
  • pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
  • petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • phallocratic — relating to a male, or the beliefs assumed by such, who assumes authority over females due to his maleness
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