12-letter words containing e, p, i, c, a, l
- plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
- play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
- polar circle — either the Arctic or the Antarctic Circle.
- pole dancing — Pole dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances around a pole in a sexy way.
- 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.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- 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
- porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
- porcelainize — to make into or coat with porcelain or something resembling porcelain.
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
- porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
- porcellanize — to bake into porcelain
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- pre-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- 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
- preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
- preeclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
- prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
- prelatically — in the manner of a prelate
- prescribable — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- prickly pear — any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
- primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
- primary cell — a cell designed to produce electric current through an electrochemical reaction that is not efficiently reversible, so that the cell when discharged cannot be efficiently recharged by an electric current.
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- prince royal — the eldest son of a king or queen.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- procellarian — a bird species from the genus Procellaria
- processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
- proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
- protreptical — didactic
- psi particle — any of a family of mesons consisting of a charmed quark and a charmed antiquark.
- ptyalectasis — spontaneous or surgical dilatation of a salivary duct.
- pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
- quadraplegic — quadriplegic.
- quadriplegic — a person with quadriplegia.
- quindecaplet — a group of 15
- recapitalize — to renew or change the capital of.
- recapitulate — to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.