12-letter words containing e, r, o, s, i
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- prophesyings — gatherings held to expound the prophecies of the Scriptures
- propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
- proprietress — a woman who owns a business establishment.
- proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- prose writer — a person who writes prose
- prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
- prosopopoeia — personification, as of inanimate things.
- prosperities — a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- protestation — the act of protesting or affirming.
- protosemitic — the hypothetical parent language of the Semitic group of languages
- proximities' — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
- 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.
- psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
- pteridosperm — seed fern.
- pterosaurian — a pterosaur
- pyonephritis — suppurative inflammation of the kidney.
- pyritiferous — having or producing pyrites
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
- pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
- querimonious — Complaining; querulous. (from 17th c.).
- rachiotomies — Plural form of rachiotomy.
- radio source — a cosmic object or phenomenon, as a galaxy, pulsar, quasar, or the remnant of a supernova or of a galactic collision, that emits radio waves.
- radioisotope — a radioactive isotope, usually artificially produced: used in physical and biological research, therapeutics, etc.
- rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- re-admission — the act of allowing to enter; entrance granted by permission, by provision or existence of pecuniary means, or by the removal of obstacles: the admission of aliens into a country.
- re-deposited — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
- re-solicited — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
- reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
- reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
- rebelliously — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
- receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
- receptionist — a person employed to receive and assist callers, clients, etc., as in an office.
- recessionary — of, relating to, or causing recession, especially economic recession: recessionary market pressures.
- reciprocates — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- recommission — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- reconstitute — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconversion — to convert again.
- rectirostral — (of a bird) having a straight bill.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- redemptorist — a member of the “Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer,” founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori in 1732.
- rediscoverer — a person who rediscovers
- redispose of — to dispose of again
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- reductionist — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- reestimation — judgment or opinion: In my estimation the boy is guilty.