12-letter words containing o, c, u, p, a
- polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
- polynucleate — having many nuclei.
- ponce around — If you say that someone is poncing around or poncing about, you mean that they are not doing something properly, quickly, or seriously.
- 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.
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- preoccupancy — the act, right, or instance of prior occupancy.
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- procedurally — of or relating to a procedure or procedures, especially of a court of law, legislative body, or law enforcement agency.
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- produce race — a race for the offspring of parents identified or characterized at the time of nomination.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- product mark — a trademark used on only one product.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- propaedeutic — pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction.
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- protactinium — a radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Pa; atomic number: 91.
- protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
- protuberancy — protuberance.
- pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
- pterocarpous — having winged fruit.
- puerto rican — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- punctulation — the state of being punctulate
- puncturation — the act of puncturing
- punditocracy — influential media pundits collectively.
- purification — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- quadraphonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- quadriphonic — quadraphonic.
- quadrophonic — Alternative spelling of quadraphonic.
- recuperation — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
- recuperatory — of or relating to recovery or recuperation
- reoccupation — a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation: Her occupation was dentistry.
- rhizocarpous — having the root perennial but the stem annual, as perennial herbs.
- router patch — a plywood panel patch with parallel sides and rounded ends.
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- sarcophagous — carnivorous.
- 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.
- scatophagous — feeding on dung or excrement