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12-letter words containing l, a, t, r, n

  • partializing — to bias.
  • parting line — the line at which two closed dies or two halves of a mold meet.
  • party animal — person who frequents drinking parties
  • pastoralness — the quality or state of being pastoral or rural
  • pasture land — grassland used for grazing
  • patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
  • patent rolls — (in Britain) the register of patents issued
  • patrilineage — lineal descent traced through the male line.
  • patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
  • patrol wagon — an enclosed truck or van used by the police to transport prisoners.
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • 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.
  • penalty area — the area, 44 yards (40 meters) wide and 18 yards (16 meters) deep, centered on the goal line and extending in front of the goal, where a foul by a defensive player results in a penalty kick for the offensive team.
  • perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • perenniality — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
  • perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
  • peritoneally — through the peritoneum
  • perorational — of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a peroration
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • 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.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • 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.
  • plane stress — Plane stress is a two-dimensional state of stress in which all stress is applied in a single plane.
  • planet earth — the world
  • plant-cutter — any of several South American, passerine birds of the family Phytotomidae, superficially resembling grosbeaks but having serrated edges on the bill that aid in cutting leaves and other plant food.
  • plasteriness — the state of being made of or resembling plaster
  • polarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
  • 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.
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed 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.
  • port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
  • postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
  • pratincolous — living in a meadow.
  • prayer plant — a plant, Maranta leuconeura, native to Brazil, that is widely cultivated for its variegated leaves that close up at night.
  • 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-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • 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
  • premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
  • premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • presentially — in a presential way
  • presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
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