12-letter words containing c, o, i, t, a, l
- overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- ovolactarian — lacto-ovo-vegetarian.
- pain control — methods for the relief and management of pain
- 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.
- palification — the act of fortifying something with stakes
- paralation c — Paralation embedded in C. Under development.
- paroccipital — of or relating to the part of the skull next to the mastoid process; paramastoid
- parochialist — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- pathological — of or relating to pathology.
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- pauciloquent — using few words in speech or conversation
- 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.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- pestological — relating to pestology
- phallocratic — relating to a male, or the beliefs assumed by such, who assumes authority over females due to his maleness
- pharmacolite — hydrous calcium arsenate, 2CaO⋅As 2 O 5 ⋅5H 2 O, formed by natural alteration of mineral deposits containing arsenopyrite and arsenical ores of cobalt and silver.
- phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
- phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
- photovoltaic — of or relating to the photovoltaic effect.
- phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- pictorialism — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
- pictorialist — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
- pictorialize — to make pictorial; illustrate or represent with or as if with pictures.
- pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
- pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
- placentation — Anatomy, Zoology. the formation of a placenta. the manner of placement or construction of a placenta.
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- plagiotropic — growing more or less divergent from the vertical.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- plastic foam — expanded plastic.
- plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
- platonically — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- play it cool — If you play it cool, you deliberately behave in a calm, unemotional way because you do not want people to know you are enthusiastic or angry about something.
- play it cozy — to act cautiously so as to avoid risk
- poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
- police state — a nation in which the police, especially a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy.
- politicalize — to cause to be political; color with politics.
- politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
- polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
- polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polysynaptic — having or involving more than one synapse.
- porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.