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12-letter words containing p, a, i, l

  • particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
  • parting line — the line at which two closed dies or two halves of a mold meet.
  • party animal — person who frequents drinking parties
  • parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
  • pascal-linda — Ian Flockhart, U Edinburgh, 1991. Under development.
  • passing bell — a bell tolled to announce a death or funeral.
  • passing lane — a highway lane in which a driver may pass other vehicles legally.
  • passion play — a dramatic representation of the passion of Christ, as that given every ten years at the Bavarian village of Oberammergau.
  • passionately — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
  • patent cliff — a potential sharp drop in sales and revenue for a company when one of its patents expires: the looming patent cliffs faced by pharmaceutical firms.
  • patent still — a type of still in which the distillation is continuous
  • pathetically — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • pathobiology — pathology with emphasis on the biological aspects of disease
  • pathological — of or relating to pathology.
  • patrilateral — related through the father.
  • patrilineage — lineal descent traced through the male line.
  • 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
  • peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
  • pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
  • pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
  • pearl millet — a tall grass, Pennisetum americanum (or P. glaucum), cultivated in Africa, Asia, and the southern U.S. for its edible seeds and as a forage plant.
  • pearl primus — Pearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
  • pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
  • pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
  • pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • pedicellaria — one of the minute pincerlike structures common to starfish and sea urchins, used for cleaning and to capture tiny prey.
  • pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
  • pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
  • pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
  • peltier heat — the heat gained or lost at a junction of a thermocouple due to the Peltier effect.
  • penalization — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
  • penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
  • pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
  • pennine alps — a range of the Alps between Switzerland and Italy. Highest peak: Monte Rosa, 4634 m (15 204 ft)
  • pennsylvania — a state in the E United States. 45,333 sq. mi. (117,410 sq. km). Capital: Harrisburg. Abbreviation: PA (for use with zip code), Pa., Penn., Penna.
  • pension plan — a systematic plan created and maintained, as by a corporation, to make regular payments of benefits to retired or disabled employees, either on a contributory or a noncontributory basis.
  • pentapolitan — of or pertaining to a pentapolis
  • penthesileia — the daughter of Ares and queen of the Amazons, whom she led to the aid of Troy. She was slain by Achilles
  • perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • percussional — of or relating to percussion
  • perenniality — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
  • perichaetial — denoting the leaves in mosses that surround the archegonia and, later, the base of the sporophyte
  • perimetrical — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
  • perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
  • periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
  • periodically — recurring at intervals of time: periodic revivals of an interest in handicrafts.
  • peripherally — pertaining to, situated in, or constituting the periphery: peripheral resistance on the outskirts of the battle area.
  • peritoneally — through the peritoneum
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