12-letter words containing o, c, t, p, u
- outcroppings — Plural form of outcropping.
- outplacement — counseling and assistance in finding a new job, provided by a company for an employee who has been or is about to be dismissed.
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- outreproduce — to reproduce more prolifically than
- p-n junction — a boundary between a p-type and n-type semiconductor that functions as a rectifier and is used in diodes and junction transistors
- package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
- panic button — an alarm button for use in an emergency, as to summon help.
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- pauciloquent — using few words in speech or conversation
- pay court to — to court, as for favor or love
- pectoriloquy — vocalization through the chest wall, indicating a cavity or consolidation of the lung
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pen computer — a computer, as a personal digital assistant, having pattern-recognition software enabling it to read handwritten text or drawings input on the screen by means of a stylus.
- percutaneous — administered, removed, or absorbed by way of the skin, as an injection, needle biopsy, or transdermal drug.
- periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
- peritrichous — (of bacteria) having a uniform distribution of flagella over the body surface.
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- phi-function — Euler's phi-function.
- photocurrent — an electric current produced by a photoelectric effect.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
- photoproduct — any product which is produced by a chemical reaction that uses light or other electromagnetic radiation to increase energy of particles
- 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
- pinturicchio — real name Bernardino di Betto. ?1454–1513, Italian painter of the Umbrian school
- platanaceous — relating to the family Platanaceae
- plecopterous — relating to the order Plecoptera or stoneflies
- pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
- 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 mouse — any of numerous burrowing rodents, especially of the genus Perognathus, chiefly inhabiting arid regions of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having fur-lined cheek pouches and a long tail.
- point source — a source of radiation sufficiently distant compared to its length and width that it can be considered as a point.
- 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.
- pollen count — a count of the amount of pollen in the air, based on the average of the number of pollen grains that collect on slides exposed to the air for a given period of time.
- polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
- polynucleate — having many nuclei.
- polystichous — arranged in rows or series.
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- postconquest — of, relating to, or characteristic of a period of time after a conquest, esp with regard to the period after the Norman Conquest
- postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- preconstruct — to construct beforehand
- preinduction — occurring before an induction
- probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly