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

  • 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.
  • positionally — in terms of position, from a positional point of view
  • possessional — of, relating to, or characterized by possession
  • 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.
  • postillation — the writing or preaching of postils
  • postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
  • 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
  • pratincolous — living in a meadow.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
  • processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
  • proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
  • prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
  • professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • prostacyclin — a prostaglandin, C 2 0 H 3 2 O 5 , that specifically inhibits the formation of blood clots.
  • provableness — the quality of being provable
  • pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
  • saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
  • saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
  • salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
  • sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
  • sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
  • scalp lotion — A scalp lotion is a liquid medication for the treatment of scalp conditions and disorders.
  • scapulomancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
  • school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
  • simplon pass — a pass over the Lepontine Alps in S Switzerland, between Brig (Switzerland) and Iselle (Italy). Height: 2009 m (6590 ft)
  • skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
  • sleep apnoea — the temporary cessation of breathing during sleep, which in some cases is due to obstruction of the upper airway by enlarged tonsils, uvula, etc, causing the sufferer to snore loudly and fight for breath
  • sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
  • smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
  • span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • speciational — relating to speciation
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • spiflication — rough treatment
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