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12-letter words containing c, o, p, r, e

  • picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
  • picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
  • picture show — motion picture.
  • picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
  • pinch roller — a flexible device that presses magnetic tape against the capstan in a tape recorder.
  • pindaric ode — an ode consisting of several units, each of which is composed of a strophe and an antistrophe of identical form followed by a contrasting epode.
  • pirate coast — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
  • pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
  • place-holder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • plecopterous — relating to the order Plecoptera or stoneflies
  • plerocercoid — the wormlike larval stage of some tapeworms, intermediate between the first parasitic larval stage and adult.
  • pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
  • pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
  • point source — a source of radiation sufficiently distant compared to its length and width that it can be considered as a point.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • polar circle — either the Arctic or the Antarctic Circle.
  • police court — an inferior court with summary jurisdiction for the trial of persons accused of any of certain minor offenses, and with power to examine those charged with more serious offenses and hold them for trial in a superior court or for a grand jury.
  • police force — police (def 1).
  • police power — the power of a nation, within the limits of its constitution, to regulate the conduct of its citizens in the interest of the common good.
  • policeperson — a member of a police force.
  • policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • poliorcetics — the science of siegecraft
  • politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
  • poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
  • polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
  • ponce around — If you say that someone is poncing around or poncing about, you mean that they are not doing something properly, quickly, or seriously.
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcelainize — to make into or coat with porcelain or something resembling porcelain.
  • 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
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
  • porcellanize — to bake into porcelain
  • pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
  • pork-chopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
  • port chester — a city in SE New York, on Long Island Sound.
  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
  • postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
  • poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
  • poster color — poster paint.
  • postexercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
  • postfracture — taking place after a fracture
  • powder chest — a small wooden box containing a charge of powder, old nails, scrap iron, etc., formerly secured over the side of a ship and exploded on the attempt of an enemy to board.
  • power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
  • power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
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