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12-letter words containing o, c, i, p, t, e

  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  • photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
  • photoexcited — increased in energy due to photoexcitation
  • photoinduced — induced by light.
  • photomachine — a machine that prints copies of digital photographs
  • photothermic — pertaining to the thermal effects of light.
  • phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • pictorialize — to make pictorial; illustrate or represent with or as if with pictures.
  • picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
  • picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
  • picture show — motion picture.
  • picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
  • pigeon-chest — chicken breast.
  • pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
  • pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
  • pipe tobacco — tobacco suitable for use in a tobacco pipe
  • pirate coast — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
  • pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
  • placentation — Anatomy, Zoology. the formation of a placenta. the manner of placement or construction of a placenta.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plenipotence — the possession of total authority
  • plenipotency — the state of being plenipotent
  • pneumocystis — any protozoan of the genus Pneumocystis, esp P. carinii, which is a cause of pneumonia in people whose immune defences have been lowered by drugs or a disease
  • pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
  • pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
  • pocket knife — A pocket knife is a small knife with several blades which fold into the handle so that you can carry it around with you safely.
  • pocket piece — (in a window frame) a removable part of a pulley stile permitting access to sash weights.
  • pocket-sized — If you describe something as pocket-sized, you approve of it because it is small enough to fit in your pocket.
  • poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
  • point defect — an imperfection in a crystal's lattice structure, either a missing atom or ion creating a vacancy in the lattice or an extra atom or ion between two normal lattice points creating an interstitial.
  • point source — a source of radiation sufficiently distant compared to its length and width that it can be considered as a point.
  • point-device — completely; perfectly; exactly.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • police court — an inferior court with summary jurisdiction for the trial of persons accused of any of certain minor offenses, and with power to examine those charged with more serious offenses and hold them for trial in a superior court or for a grand jury.
  • police state — a nation in which the police, especially a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy.
  • poliorcetics — the science of siegecraft
  • politicalize — to cause to be political; color with politics.
  • politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
  • polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • polycythemic — relating to polycythemia
  • polypeptidic — relating to a polypeptide
  • polyphyletic — developed from more than one ancestral type, as a group of animals.
  • polytheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.
  • pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
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