12-letter words containing l, p, n
- porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
- porcelainize — to make into or coat with porcelain or something resembling porcelain.
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- porcelaneous — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- 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.
- port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
- portentously — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- positionally — in terms of position, from a positional point of view
- possessional — of, relating to, or characterized by possession
- post-looping — post-synchronization.
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- postal union — an international agreement on postal rates and services.
- 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.
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- postelection — the selection of a person or persons for office by vote.
- postillation — the writing or preaching of postils
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- postliminium — postliminy.
- postliminous — occurring after; subsequent
- postneonatal — of, relating to, or occurring in the (four week) period after birth
- postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
- postvaccinal — occurring after a vaccine
- potentiality — the state or quality of being potential.
- potting soil — enriched topsoil for potting plants, especially house plants.
- poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
- powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
- powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- 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-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- pre-conclude — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
- pre-election — a choice or selection made beforehand.
- pre-enrolled — to write the name of (a person) in a roll or register; place upon a list; register: It took two days to enroll the new students.
- pre-hellenic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., especially before the time of Alexander the Great. Compare Hellenistic (def 3).
- pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
- 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.
- preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
- precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
- precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- preclearance — the act of clearing.
- preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
- predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.