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12-letter words containing i, r, e, l, a, n

  • persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
  • personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • personalized — customized
  • philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
  • piano player — pianist.
  • pig islander — a New Zealander
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
  • pipe cleaner — a short length of twisted flexible wires covered with tufted fabric, used to clean the stem of a smoker's pipe and for various handicrafts.
  • piperacillin — a broad-spectrum semisynthetic penicillin, C 2 3 H 2 6 N 5 NaO 7 , used against certain susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and certain anaerobes, especially P. aeruginosa.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plane strain — Plane strain is a two-dimensional state of strain in which all the shape changes of a material happen on a single plane.
  • plasteriness — the state of being made of or resembling plaster
  • play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
  • player piano — a piano that can play automatically when the keys are actuated electronically or by a pneumatic device controlled by a piano roll.
  • plea bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • plea-bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • pollen grain — a single granule of pollen.
  • 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
  • port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • pre-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
  • pre-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • pre-prandial — You use pre-prandial to refer to things you do or have before a meal.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
  • preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
  • preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
  • prelapsarian — Theology. occurring before the Fall: the prelapsarian innocence of Eden.
  • prelingually — in a prelingual manner
  • premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
  • premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
  • prenominally — before a noun
  • presentially — in a presential way
  • presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
  • primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
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