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

  • preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
  • premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
  • prenominally — before a noun
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
  • prince royal — the eldest son of a king or queen.
  • pro-colonial — of, concerning, or pertaining to a colony or colonies: the colonial policies of France.
  • procellarian — a bird species from the genus Procellaria
  • processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
  • proclamation — something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
  • 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.
  • productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • profile plan — a diagrammatic fore-and-aft elevation of the hull of a vessel, showing bow and buttock lines, stations, water lines, diagonals, decks, bulwarks, etc.
  • prolog-linda — 1. Prolog extended with Linda-style parallelism. Proc 4th Australian Conf on Artif Intell. 2. Neil MacDonald, U Edinburgh 1989. Another Prolog extended with Linda, implemented on a Computing Surface.
  • prolongation — the act of prolonging: the prolongation of a line.
  • promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • proportional — having due proportion; corresponding.
  • prostacyclin — a prostaglandin, C 2 0 H 3 2 O 5 , that specifically inhibits the formation of blood clots.
  • proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
  • prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • provableness — the quality of being provable
  • providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincially — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • pyromaniacal — a compulsion to set things on fire.
  • railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
  • ranging pole — a pole for marking positions in surveying
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • replantation — to plant again.
  • repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
  • reputational — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
  • responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
  • ribbon plant — spider plant (def 1).
  • rocker panel — body paneling below the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
  • rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
  • role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
  • role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
  • rolling plan — a plan which is designed to continue over a period of time and is subject to regular review and updating
  • rotten apple — You can use rotten apple to talk about a person who is dishonest and therefore causes a lot of problems for the group or organization they belong to.
  • royal pardon — release from punishment for an offence, granted by a monarch
  • saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
  • 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.
  • 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.
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