12-letter words containing e, p, i, s, u
- posteruptive — occurring after a volcanic eruption
- poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
- preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
- prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- prerequisite — required beforehand: a prerequisite fund of knowledge.
- presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
- presque isle — a city in NE Maine.
- pressure ice — a general term for ice broken and deformed by stresses generated by wind, currents, or waves.
- presubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
- pseudocyesis — false pregnancy.
- pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
- pseudopodial — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
- pseudopodium — pseudopod.
- pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
- pterosaurian — a pterosaur
- public house — British. a tavern.
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- pulley stile — (in a window frame) a stile against which a window sash slides.
- pumice stone — abrasive stone used for exfoliating
- pumice-stone — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- purblindness — the state of being purblind
- pyritiferous — having or producing pyrites
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- quarterpipes — Plural form of quarterpipe.
- quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
- ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
- reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
- repercussion — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
- repercussive — causing repercussion; reverberating.
- repositorium — a place for the storage of valuables, as in an ancient Roman temple or a church.
- repressurize — to raise the internal atmospheric pressure of to the required or desired level: to pressurize an astronaut's spacesuit before a walk in space.
- resupination — a resupinate condition.
- resuspension — the act of suspending.
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- rumble strip — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- semi-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.