12-letter words containing n, a, r, i, l
- paranthelion — a bright spot in the sky caused by refraction and occurring at an angular distance from the sun of between 90° and 140°
- parasol pine — stone pine (def 1).
- partial tone — one of the pure tones forming a part of a complex tone.
- 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
- 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).
- pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
- pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
- 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.
- pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
- pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
- perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- 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
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
- personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalized — customized
- philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- 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.
- philharmonic — fond of or devoted to music; music-loving: used especially in the name of certain musical societies that sponsor symphony orchestras (Philharmonic Societies) and hence applied to their concerts (philharmonic concerts)
- piano player — pianist.
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
- pipe cleaner — a short length of twisted flexible wires covered with tufted fabric, used to clean the stem of a smoker's pipe and for various handicrafts.
- piperacillin — a broad-spectrum semisynthetic penicillin, C 2 3 H 2 6 N 5 NaO 7 , used against certain susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and certain anaerobes, especially P. aeruginosa.
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- plagiarising — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- 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.
- planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- plasteriness — the state of being made of or resembling plaster
- play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
- player piano — a piano that can play automatically when the keys are actuated electronically or by a pneumatic device controlled by a piano roll.
- playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
- plea bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
- plea-bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
- polarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
- pollen grain — a single granule of pollen.
- pons varolii — pons (def 1).
- porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
- porcelainize — to make into or coat with porcelain or something resembling porcelain.
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain