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12-letter words containing e, l, i, p

  • potentiality — the state or quality of being potential.
  • pouilly-fume — a dry, white wine from the Loire Valley of France.
  • poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie lily — sand lily.
  • prairie soil — a soil that forms in subhumid, temperate regions with tall grass as native vegetation.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • pralltriller — inverted mordent.
  • pre-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
  • pre-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
  • pre-election — a choice or selection made beforehand.
  • pre-electric — pertaining to, derived from, produced by, or involving electricity: an electric shock.
  • pre-hellenic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., especially before the time of Alexander the Great. Compare Hellenistic (def 3).
  • pre-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • pre-prandial — You use pre-prandial to refer to things you do or have before a meal.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • preamplifier — a device in the amplifier circuit of a radio or phonograph that increases the strength of a weak signal for detection and further amplification.
  • preauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
  • precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • precipitable — capable of being precipitated.
  • preclassical — occurring or existing in, produced during or characteristic of a period prior to the classical period
  • precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
  • predictively — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
  • predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
  • prednisolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid, C 2 1 H 2 8 O 5 , used in various forms to treat inflammation and allergies and in the treatment of acute leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and lymphomas.
  • preeclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
  • preeminently — eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing: He is preeminent in his profession.
  • preemptively — of or relating to preemption.
  • preestablish — to establish beforehand.
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
  • preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
  • prelapsarian — Theology. occurring before the Fall: the prelapsarian innocence of Eden.
  • prelatically — in the manner of a prelate
  • prelingually — in a prelingual manner
  • premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
  • premaritally — in a premarital manner
  • premaxillary — one of a pair of bones of the upper jaw of vertebrates, situated in front of and between the maxillary bones.
  • premium deal — a commercial transaction in which a special incentive or bonus is offered
  • premium fuel — fuel or gasoline which has a higher octane value and is more expensive than standard fuel
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