12-letter words containing l, i, t, e, s, p
- plasteriness — the state of being made of or resembling plaster
- play it safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- pleiotropism — the condition of a gene affecting more than one characteristic of the phenotype
- poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
- police state — a nation in which the police, especially a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy.
- poliorcetics — the science of siegecraft
- polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
- politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
- polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
- polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
- polytheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.
- poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
- positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- 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
- postelection — the selection of a person or persons for office by vote.
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
- 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
- preestablish — to establish beforehand.
- presbyterial — of or relating to a presbytery.
- preselection — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
- presentially — in a presential way
- presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- presterilise — to sterilise in advance
- presterilize — to sterilize in advance
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
- psi particle — any of a family of mesons consisting of a charmed quark and a charmed antiquark.
- ptyalectasis — spontaneous or surgical dilatation of a salivary duct.
- pulley stile — (in a window frame) a stile against which a window sash slides.
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- rumble strip — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- saint phalle — Niki de [nik-ee duh;; French nee-kee duh] /ˈnɪk i də;; French niˈki də/ (Show IPA), 1930–2002, French sculptor and painter.
- sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
- scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- self-pitying — Someone who is self-pitying is full of self-pity.