12-letter words containing c, e, l, p
- over-complex — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
- overexplicit — excessively explicit
- pack of lies — false account
- package deal — Also called package plan. an agreement in which the buyer pays a stipulated price for a group of related products or services: a package deal from a book club.
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- paedophiliac — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
- palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
- palaeolithic — the period of the emergence of primitive man and the manufacture of unpolished chipped stone tools, about 2.5 million to 3 million years ago until about 12 000 bc
- paleoclimate — the climate of some former period of geologic time.
- paleoecology — the branch of ecology dealing with the relations and interactions between ancient life forms and their environment.
- paleological — the study of antiquities.
- palimpsestic — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
- pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
- palm cabbage — cabbage palm.
- pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
- pancake roll — A pancake roll is an item of Chinese food consisting of a small roll of thin crisp pastry filled with vegetables and sometimes meat.
- panchen lama — Tashi Lama.
- panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
- papier colle — collage.
- para-medical — related to the medical profession in a secondary or supplementary capacity.
- parcel shelf — flat storage panel in a vehicle
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- parochialise — to make parochial.
- parochialize — to make parochial.
- participable — capable of being shared.
- particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- patellectomy — the surgical removal of the patella
- 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.
- pauciloquent — using few words in speech or conversation
- peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
- peacefulness — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
- pearlescence — a pearly lustre or sheen
- pebble beach — a beach covered with pebbles or stones rather than sand
- peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
- 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.
- pectoriloquy — vocalization through the chest wall, indicating a cavity or consolidation of the lung
- pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pedicellaria — one of the minute pincerlike structures common to starfish and sea urchins, used for cleaning and to capture tiny prey.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pediculicide — Also, pediculicidal. destructive to lice.
- pedunculated — having a peduncle.
- 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
- pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
- pelvic floor — muscles beneath the pelvis
- penal colony — remote prison