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12-letter words containing n, o, a, s, p

  • picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
  • pilot signal — a signal, as a flag or light, used to request a pilot.
  • plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plastination — a technique for embalming bodies by impregnating whole organs with silicon polymers
  • plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
  • platanaceous — relating to the family Platanaceae
  • plumbaginous — containing graphite.
  • pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
  • pogson ratio — the brightness ratio of two celestial objects that differ by one magnitude. On the Pogson scale a difference of 5 magnitudes is defined as a difference of 100 in the intensities of two stars; therefore a difference of 1 magnitude is equal to the fifth root of 100, i.e. 2.512
  • point spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
  • point-spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
  • poison gland — a gland in some fish and amphibians that secretes venomous material
  • poison sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus vernix (or Toxicodendron vernix), of swampy areas of the eastern U.S., having pinnate leaves and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to it.
  • pollyannaish — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
  • pollyannaism — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
  • polysiloxane — a polymer composed of silicon and oxygen atoms
  • polysynaptic — having or involving more than one synapse.
  • pomona glass — an American art glass having one of its surfaces stained a pale amber color and the other surface etched.
  • pons varolii — pons (def 1).
  • ponta grossa — a city in S Brazil.
  • pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
  • 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
  • port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • 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.
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