12-letter words containing i, s, o, p
- postabortion — Also called voluntary abortion. the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy.
- postaccident — occurring after an accident
- postage paid — stamped ready for mailing
- postal union — an international agreement on postal rates and services.
- postbiblical — occurring after the events written about in the Bible, occurring after the Bible was written
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- postcolonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
- postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
- postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
- postdiluvial — existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- postelection — the selection of a person or persons for office by vote.
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- poster paint — an opaque, water-based, typically bright-colored paint with a glue-size or gum binder, that is suitable for use on posters and is usually packaged in jars.
- posteriority — the state or quality of being posterior.
- posteruptive — occurring after a volcanic eruption
- postexercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
- postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- posthospital — following treatment in a hospital
- posthypnotic — of or relating to the period after hypnosis.
- postillation — the writing or preaching of postils
- postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
- postischemic — occurring after or due to ischaemia
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- postliminium — postliminy.
- postliminous — occurring after; subsequent
- postliterate — of or relating to a (hypothetical) time or stage in society when literacy is no longer necessary or valued
- postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- postmidnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- postmistress — a woman in charge of a post office.
- postorgasmic — of or relating to the period after an orgasm
- postposition — the act of placing after.
- postpositive — (of a word, particle, or affix) placed after a word to modify it or to show its relation to other elements of a sentence.
- postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
- postromantic — of or relating to the period after Romanticism
- postsphygmic — of or relating to the pulse.
- poststimulus — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following the administering of a stimulus
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- postsynaptic — being or occurring on the receiving end of a discharge across the synapse.
- postvaccinal — occurring after a vaccine
- potamologist — a specialist in potamology
- potato crisp — potato chip.
- potting shed — A potting shed is a small building in a garden, in which you can keep things such as seeds or garden tools.
- potting soil — enriched topsoil for potting plants, especially house plants.
- poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- power assist — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
- power series — an infinite series in which the terms are coefficients times successive powers of a given variable, or times products of powers of two or more variables.
- prairie rose — a climbing rose, Rosa setigera, of the central U.S., having pinkish to white flowers: the state flower of North Dakota.