12-letter words containing c, a, p, r, y
- press agency — news-reporting organization
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- prickly pear — any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
- primary care — medical care by a physician, or other health-care professional, who is the patient's first contact with the health-care system and who may recommend a specialist if necessary.
- primary cell — a cell designed to produce electric current through an electrochemical reaction that is not efficiently reversible, so that the cell when discharged cannot be efficiently recharged by an electric current.
- prince royal — the eldest son of a king or queen.
- principality — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
- pro-activity — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- pro-monarchy — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- procedurally — of or relating to a procedure or procedures, especially of a court of law, legislative body, or law enforcement agency.
- prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- prophylactic — defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug.
- prosodically — in a prosodic manner
- prostacyclin — a prostaglandin, C 2 0 H 3 2 O 5 , that specifically inhibits the formation of blood clots.
- proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
- prototypical — the original or model on which something is based or formed.
- protuberancy — protuberance.
- provincially — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- psychiatrist — a physician who practices psychiatry.
- psychography — the supposed writing of a spirit or medium
- punditocracy — influential media pundits collectively.
- pyrocatechol — catechol.
- pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
- pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
- pyromaniacal — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- pyruvic acid — a water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 4 O 3 , important in many metabolic and fermentative processes, having an odor resembling that of acetic acid, prepared by the dehydration of tartaric acid: used chiefly in biochemical research.
- reciprocally — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- recuperatory — of or relating to recovery or recuperation
- release copy — an article, notice, announcement, or the like, issued in advance for publication or broadcast, bearing a release date.
- rescue party — a group of people who attempt to rescue, find or save a person or people for danger, esp a person or people who have got lost while mountain climbing
- rhyncophoran — any of various beetles, including the weevils, having the head extended to form a snout
- road company — a theatrical group that tours cities and towns, usually performing a single play that is or has been a success in New York City.
- scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
- scissiparity — reproduction by one cell splitting into two
- scripturally — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
- search party — a group of persons conducting an organized search for someone or something lost or hidden.
- seraphically — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- special jury — struck jury.
- spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
- spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
- sphericality — the state of being a sphere
- sporadically — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- starch syrup — glucose (def 2).
- starch-syrup — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- superciliary — of or relating to the eyebrow.
- supplicatory — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- tachyphrasia — a communication disorder involving rapid, unintelligible speech
- technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
- tracheophyte — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.