12-letter words containing c, o, l, a, p, s
- polysynaptic — having or involving more than one synapse.
- 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
- porismatical — porismatic
- post-glacial — after a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- postbiblical — occurring after the events written about in the Bible, occurring after the Bible was written
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- postcolonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
- postdoctoral — of or relating to study or professional work undertaken after the receipt of a doctorate: postdoctoral courses.
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- postvaccinal — occurring after a vaccine
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- 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.
- prosodically — in a prosodic manner
- prostacyclin — a prostaglandin, C 2 0 H 3 2 O 5 , that specifically inhibits the formation of blood clots.
- protoplasmic — Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
- 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.
- psychobabble — writing or talk using jargon from psychiatry or psychotherapy without particular accuracy or relevance.
- psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
- psychosocial — of or relating to the interaction between social and psychological factors.
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- release copy — an article, notice, announcement, or the like, issued in advance for publication or broadcast, bearing a release date.
- reproachless — irreproachable.
- scalp lotion — A scalp lotion is a liquid medication for the treatment of scalp conditions and disorders.
- scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
- scapulomancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- scatter plot — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
- scolopaceous — (of birds or other animals) like a snipe, a shore bird with a straight beak
- scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- scopophiliac — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
- scoptophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
- scrophularia — a member of a genus of flowering plants which have a square stem and are known as figworts
- semitropical — subtropical.
- signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
- slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
- sophomorical — characteristic of a sophomore