12-letter words containing n, a, p, o
- porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
- porcellanize — to bake into porcelain
- pornographer — a person who sells, produces, films, photographs, or writes pornography.
- pornographic — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
- 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 captain — an official in charge of the harbor activities of a seaport.
- port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
- positionally — in terms of position, from a positional point of view
- possessional — of, relating to, or characterized by possession
- post captain — (formerly) a naval officer holding a commission as a captain, as distinct from an officer with the courtesy title of captain
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
- 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
- postal union — an international agreement on postal rates and services.
- postcolonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
- postcoronary — of, relating to, or occurring after a heart attack
- 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.
- 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.
- postillation — the writing or preaching of postils
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- 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.
- postromantic — of or relating to the period after Romanticism
- postsynaptic — being or occurring on the receiving end of a discharge across the synapse.
- postvaccinal — occurring after a vaccine
- potentiality — the state or quality of being potential.
- potentiation — the act of potentiating
- potichomania — the art or process of printing or using paint to decorate the inside of a glass vessel
- powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- practitioner — a person engaged in the practice of a profession, occupation, etc.: a medical practitioner.
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- praxinoscope — a toy in which a sequence of images, depicted on the inner surface of a cylinder and reflected in a series of mirrors, gives the illusion of motion as the cylinder rotates
- pre-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- pre-contract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- pre-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
- preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
- preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
- precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
- preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
- prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
- predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.