12-letter words containing e, y, c, a, p
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- oceanography — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
- office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
- one-act play — a short play consisting of only one act
- opalescently — In an opalescent manner.
- operatically — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- overcapacity — capacity beyond what is normal, allowed, or desirable.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- paleoecology — the branch of ecology dealing with the relations and interactions between ancient life forms and their environment.
- pancytopenia — an abnormally low level of all blood cells
- paracyanogen — a polymer of cyanogen
- parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
- pastry cream — a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc
- patellectomy — the surgical removal of the patella
- pathetically — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pay increase — a rise in pay or salary
- payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
- payment card — A payment card is a plastic card which you use like a credit card, but which takes the money directly from your bank account.
- peace treaty — an agreement to come to peace and end conflict (between governments, countries, etc)
- peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
- pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pedantocracy — rule by pedants; a system of government by pedants
- penal colony — remote prison
- penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
- penny arcade — an amusement hall or area that contains coin-operated entertainment devices, originally operated for a penny a play.
- perceptually — of, relating to, or involving perception.
- perfect year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
- periodically — recurring at intervals of time: periodic revivals of an interest in handicrafts.
- perspicacity — keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration.
- phagocytoses — phagocytize.
- phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
- placentology — the scientific study of the placenta
- 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
- play clothes — clothes that are suitable for playing in
- pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
- pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
- polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
- polynucleate — having many nuclei.
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- precipitancy — the quality or state of being precipitant.
- prelatically — in the manner of a prelate
- preoccupancy — the act, right, or instance of prior occupancy.