12-letter words containing p, a, l, i, c, n
- nonapostolic — Not apostolic.
- noncompliant — failure or refusal to comply, as with a law, regulation, or term of a contract.
- nonempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
- nonmunicipal — Not municipal.
- nonpolemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- nonpolitical — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- nonpractical — Not practical.
- nonspherical — not spherical
- normal pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- occupational — of or relating to an occupation, trade, or calling: occupational guidance.
- oil in place — The oil in place is the amount of crude oil which is estimated to be in a reservoir.
- olap council — (body, standard) A body formed in early 1995 to work on a cross-product API for OLAP. After little success it was replaced by the Analytical Solutions Forum.
- organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
- pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
- packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
- pain control — methods for the relief and management of pain
- palification — the act of fortifying something with stakes
- paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
- pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
- pancho-villa — Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Doroteo Arango"Pancho Villa") 1877–1923, Mexican general and revolutionist.
- papal nuncio — someone, such as an archbishop, who is a state's representative of or ambassador to the Pope
- paralation c — Paralation embedded in C. Under development.
- paranoically — in a paranoiac manner
- pascal-linda — Ian Flockhart, U Edinburgh, 1991. Under development.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
- philharmonic — fond of or devoted to music; music-loving: used especially in the name of certain musical societies that sponsor symphony orchestras (Philharmonic Societies) and hence applied to their concerts (philharmonic concerts)
- phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
- phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phonological — relating to study of speech sounds
- physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- picnic table — table-and-bench structure used outdoors
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
- pipe cleaner — a short length of twisted flexible wires covered with tufted fabric, used to clean the stem of a smoker's pipe and for various handicrafts.