12-letter words containing i, n, c, o, a
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
- pain control — methods for the relief and management of pain
- palification — the act of fortifying something with stakes
- pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
- pancho-villa — Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Doroteo Arango"Pancho Villa") 1877–1923, Mexican general and revolutionist.
- panchromatic — sensitive to all visible colors, as a photographic film.
- pancytopenia — an abnormally low level of all blood cells
- panic button — an alarm button for use in an emergency, as to summon help.
- panification — the making of bread
- pantechnicon — a furniture van; moving van.
- pantisocracy — a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal
- papal nuncio — someone, such as an archbishop, who is a state's representative of or ambassador to the Pope
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- paralation c — Paralation embedded in C. Under development.
- paranoically — in a paranoiac manner
- paronomastic — the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
- pas d'action — a dramatic, pantomimic dance sequence serving to advance the plot.
- pathogenetic — the production and development of disease.
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- pauciloquent — using few words in speech or conversation
- peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
- pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
- pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
- pentacrinoid — a larval crinoid resembling members of the genus Pentacrinus
- perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
- pernoctation — the act of staying all night in a place, esp for prayer or as a vigil
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
- phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
- philharmonic — fond of or devoted to music; music-loving: used especially in the name of certain musical societies that sponsor symphony orchestras (Philharmonic Societies) and hence applied to their concerts (philharmonic concerts)
- phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
- phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phonocamptic — possessing the property of reflecting sound or producing an echo
- phonographic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a phonograph.
- phonological — relating to study of speech sounds
- phonotactics — the patterns in which the phonemes of a language may combine to form sequences.
- photoactinic — emitting radiation having the chemical effects of light and ultraviolet rays, as on a photographic film.
- photodynamic — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- photomachine — a machine that prints copies of digital photographs
- phycoxanthin — a yellow pigment found in brown seaweeds and types of algae
- picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
- picrocarmine — a red powder containing carmine and picric acid which is used in staining processes
- pindaric ode — an ode consisting of several units, each of which is composed of a strophe and an antistrophe of identical form followed by a contrasting epode.