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12-letter words containing c, r, a, p

  • physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
  • pi character — any special character, such as an accent or mathematical symbol, which is not normally obtained in a standard type fount
  • picnic races — horse races for amateur riders held in rural areas
  • picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
  • picrocarmine — a red powder containing carmine and picric acid which is used in staining processes
  • pictographic — a pictorial sign or symbol.
  • 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.
  • picture card — face card
  • picture rail — bar from which pictures are hung
  • picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • 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.
  • pipe cleaner — a short length of twisted flexible wires covered with tufted fabric, used to clean the stem of a smoker's pipe and for various handicrafts.
  • piperacillin — a broad-spectrum semisynthetic penicillin, C 2 3 H 2 6 N 5 NaO 7 , used against certain susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and certain anaerobes, especially P. aeruginosa.
  • piperic acid — a saturated organic acid (C12H10O4), derived from plants in the pepper family, that forms yellow crystals and can be oxidized to produce piperonal
  • 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.
  • pirate perch — a purplish North American freshwater fish, Aphredoderus sayanus, the adult of which has the vent located in back of the lower jaw.
  • pkware, inc. — (company, compression)   The company, founded by Phil Katz in 1986, which produces the PKZIP and PKUNZIP compression tools and libraries for many platforms. Address: 201 E. Pittsburgh Ave., Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204 USA
  • 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
  • plagiaristic — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
  • plagiotropic — growing more or less divergent from the vertical.
  • 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.
  • planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • plant-cutter — any of several South American, passerine birds of the family Phytotomidae, superficially resembling grosbeaks but having serrated edges on the bill that aid in cutting leaves and other plant food.
  • plasma torch — an electrical device for converting a gas into a plasma, used for melting metal
  • plaster cast — any piece of sculpture reproduced in plaster of Paris.
  • plastic arts — arts producing works or effects that are three-dimensional, as sculpture or ceramics
  • plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
  • platform car — a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.
  • playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
  • plurilocular — possessing many cells
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • polar circle — either the Arctic or the Antarctic Circle.
  • polariscopic — relating to a polariscope
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • 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.
  • polyarchical — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
  • polypharmacy — the use of two or more drugs together, usually to treat a single condition or disease.
  • polysaprobic — flourishing in a body of water having a heavy load of decomposed organic matter and almost no free oxygen
  • 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.
  • pontificator — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcelainize — to make into or coat with porcelain or something resembling porcelain.
  • porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
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