12-letter words containing c, e, s, o, r
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- proper class — a class which cannot itself be a member of other classes
- propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
- proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- protosemitic — the hypothetical parent language of the Semitic group of languages
- pseudo force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
- pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
- psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychrometer — an instrument for determining atmospheric humidity by the reading of two thermometers, the bulb of one being kept moist and ventilated.
- psychrometry — the employment of the psychrometer.
- pterocarpous — having winged fruit.
- pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
- pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
- queen closer — a brick of normal length and thickness but of half normal width, used to complete a course or to space regular bricks.
- rachiotomies — Plural form of rachiotomy.
- radio source — a cosmic object or phenomenon, as a galaxy, pulsar, quasar, or the remnant of a supernova or of a galactic collision, that emits radio waves.
- ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
- re-solicited — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
- receptionist — a person employed to receive and assist callers, clients, etc., as in an office.
- recessionary — of, relating to, or causing recession, especially economic recession: recessionary market pressures.
- reciprocates — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- recommission — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- reconsecrate — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
- reconstitute — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconvalesce — to convalesce again
- reconversion — to convert again.
- record store — an outlet that sells recorded music
- rectirostral — (of a bird) having a straight bill.
- rediscoverer — a person who rediscovers
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- reductionist — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
- reinspection — the act or process of reinspecting
- rejectionist — an Arab leader or country that opposes accommodation or compromise in negotiations with Israel.
- release copy — an article, notice, announcement, or the like, issued in advance for publication or broadcast, bearing a release date.
- remonstrance — an act or instance of remonstrating.
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- repercussion — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
- reproachless — irreproachable.
- reprocessing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- resectoscope — a thin, hollow, flexible surgical instrument inserted through the urethra or vagina for use in the biopsy of tissue or the removal of lesions from the prostate gland, bladder, or uterus
- resourceless — a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.