12-letter words containing n, e, c, s, a
- pay increase — a rise in pay or salary
- peacefulness — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- pearlescence — a pearly lustre or sheen
- pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- percutaneous — administered, removed, or absorbed by way of the skin, as an injection, needle biopsy, or transdermal drug.
- perseverance — steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- pet scanning — the action or process of using a PET scanner to obtain an image.
- physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- picnic races — horse races for amateur riders held in rural areas
- piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
- 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.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- platanaceous — relating to the family Platanaceae
- pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
- poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
- pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- 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
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- postaccident — occurring after an accident
- 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-issuance — the act of issuing.
- preassurance — a guarantee or assurance offered beforehand
- precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
- precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- press agency — news-reporting organization
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- psittacinite — mottramite.
- puy de sancy — a mountain in S central France: highest peak of the Monts Dore. Height: 1886 m (6188 ft)
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- quinceaneras — Plural form of quinceanera.
- quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
- racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
- radar screen — a screen on equipment used in radar, a method for detecting the position and velocity of a distant object
- ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- reactiveness — tending to react.
- recalescence — a brightening exhibited by cooling iron as latent heat of transformation is liberated.
- recessionary — of, relating to, or causing recession, especially economic recession: recessionary market pressures.
- recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- reconsecrate — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
- reconvalesce — to convalesce again