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

  • perseverance — steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
  • pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
  • picnic races — horse races for amateur riders held in rural areas
  • picrocarmine — a red powder containing carmine and picric acid which is used in staining processes
  • 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.
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • pindaric ode — an ode consisting of several units, each of which is composed of a strophe and an antistrophe of identical form followed by a contrasting epode.
  • pipe cleaner — a short length of twisted flexible wires covered with tufted fabric, used to clean the stem of a smoker's pipe and for various handicrafts.
  • piperacillin — a broad-spectrum semisynthetic penicillin, C 2 3 H 2 6 N 5 NaO 7 , used against certain susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and certain anaerobes, especially P. aeruginosa.
  • pkware, inc. — (company, compression)   The company, founded by Phil Katz in 1986, which produces the PKZIP and PKUNZIP compression tools and libraries for many platforms. Address: 201 E. Pittsburgh Ave., Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204 USA
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • practitioner — a person engaged in the practice of a profession, occupation, etc.: a medical practitioner.
  • 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-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
  • pre-contract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • pre-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
  • pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
  • preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • preassurance — a guarantee or assurance offered beforehand
  • precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • precipitance — the quality or state of being precipitant.
  • precipitancy — the quality or state of being precipitant.
  • preclearance — the act of clearing.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
  • preoccupancy — the act, right, or instance of prior occupancy.
  • preordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
  • prepackaging — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
  • press agency — news-reporting organization
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