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12-letter words containing c, l, a, s, e, r

  • nonspherical — not spherical
  • nuclear test — a test carried out on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
  • ochlocracies — Plural form of ochlocracy.
  • oracle bones — animal bones used for divination
  • oracularness — the state of being oracular
  • oral society — a society that has not developed literacy
  • orchestrally — In an orchestral manner.
  • orichalceous — relating to or resembling orichalc
  • overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
  • overclassify — to classify to excess
  • 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.
  • particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • pearlescence — a pearly lustre or sheen
  • percussional — of or relating to percussion
  • perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
  • perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
  • phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
  • 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.
  • plaster cast — any piece of sculpture reproduced in plaster of Paris.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
  • 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
  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • preclassical — occurring or existing in, produced during or characteristic of a period prior to the classical period
  • preeclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
  • prescribable — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
  • press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
  • primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
  • primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
  • proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
  • proper class — a class which cannot itself be a member of other classes
  • proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • psi particle — any of a family of mesons consisting of a charmed quark and a charmed antiquark.
  • quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
  • re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
  • recalescence — a brightening exhibited by cooling iron as latent heat of transformation is liberated.
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