12-letter words containing p, a, i, l
- play it safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
- player piano — a piano that can play automatically when the keys are actuated electronically or by a pneumatic device controlled by a piano roll.
- playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
- plea bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
- plea-bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
- plead guilty — defendant: declare guilt
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- plug casting — bait casting in which a plug is used as the lure.
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
- pluriliteral — (in Hebrew grammar) containing more than three letters in the root
- plurilocular — possessing many cells
- poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
- poison gland — a gland in some fish and amphibians that secretes venomous material
- poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
- polar circle — either the Arctic or the Antarctic Circle.
- polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
- polariscopic — relating to a polariscope
- polarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
- pole dancing — Pole dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances around a pole in a sexy way.
- 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.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
- politicalize — to cause to be political; color with politics.
- politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
- pollen grain — a single granule of pollen.
- pollyannaish — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
- pollyannaism — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
- polyarchical — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
- polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
- polysaprobic — flourishing in a body of water having a heavy load of decomposed organic matter and almost no free oxygen
- polysiloxane — a polymer composed of silicon and oxygen atoms
- polysyllabic — consisting of several, especially four or more, syllables, as a word.
- polysynaptic — having or involving more than one synapse.
- polythiazide — a substance, C 1 1 H 1 3 ClF 3 N 3 O 4 S 3 , used as a diuretic in the management of edema and hypertension.
- polytonality — the use of more than one key at the same time.
- pons varolii — pons (def 1).
- poppy family — the plant family Papaveraceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having white, yellow, or reddish juice, alternate and often lobed or dissected leaves, showy, usually solitary flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bloodroot, creamcups, greater celandine, and poppies of the genera Papaver, Eschscholzia, Argemone, and others.
- populational — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
- porcelainize — to make into or coat with porcelain or something resembling porcelain.
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
- porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain