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12-letter words containing l, a, p, o, r, t

  • petrodollars — Petrodollars are a unit of money used to calculate how much a country has earned by exporting petroleum or natural gas.
  • petrol gauge — a gauge that indicates the amount of petrol left in the tank of a vehicle
  • phallocratic — relating to a male, or the beliefs assumed by such, who assumes authority over females due to his maleness
  • pharmacolite — hydrous calcium arsenate, 2CaO⋅As 2 O 5 ⋅5H 2 O, formed by natural alteration of mineral deposits containing arsenopyrite and arsenical ores of cobalt and silver.
  • philanthropy — altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, by endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by generosity to other socially useful purposes.
  • photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
  • photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • phragmoplast — the cytoplasmic structure that forms at the equator of the spindle after the chromosomes have divided during the anaphase of plant mitosis, and that initiates cell division.
  • pictorialism — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • pictorialist — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • pictorialize — to make pictorial; illustrate or represent with or as if with pictures.
  • pilot ladder — Jacob's ladder (def 2a).
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • plagiotropic — growing more or less divergent from the vertical.
  • plasma torch — an electrical device for converting a gas into a plasma, used for melting metal
  • plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
  • plat du jour — the special or featured dish of the day on a restaurant menu.
  • plate armour — armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • platform car — a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.
  • play through — to pass another foursome or group with their permission, while playing a round of golf
  • polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • polar vortex — a whirling mass of very cold air that sits over the North or South Pole: A displaced polar vortex is causing Arctic temperatures across the United States.
  • polarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
  • pole vaulter — A pole vaulter is an athlete who performs the pole vault.
  • politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
  • poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
  • polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • polyurethane — a thermoplastic polymer containing the group NHCOO: used for padding and insulation in furniture, clothing, and packaging, and in the manufacture of resins for adhesives, elastomers, and fillers.
  • popular vote — the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualified voters, as opposed to that made by the electoral college. Compare electoral vote.
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
  • porismatical — porismatic
  • 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.
  • port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • port of call — a port visited briefly by a ship, usually to take on or discharge passengers and cargo or to undergo repairs.
  • portal frame — a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway
  • porto alegre — a state in S Brazil. 107,923 sq. mi. (279,520 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Alegre.
  • porto amelia — former name of Pemba (def 2).
  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • postal meter — a postal franking machine
  • postal order — money order.
  • postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postdoctoral — of or relating to study or professional work undertaken after the receipt of a doctorate: postdoctoral courses.
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
  • postliterate — of or relating to a (hypothetical) time or stage in society when literacy is no longer necessary or valued
  • postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
  • postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
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