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12-letter words containing p, a, n, e

  • polyurethane — a thermoplastic polymer containing the group NHCOO: used for padding and insulation in furniture, clothing, and packaging, and in the manufacture of resins for adhesives, elastomers, and fillers.
  • pompeian red — a dull, grayish red.
  • 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.
  • pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcelainize — to make into or coat with porcelain or something resembling porcelain.
  • 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.
  • porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
  • porcellanize — to bake into porcelain
  • pornographer — a person who sells, produces, films, photographs, or writes pornography.
  • port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
  • port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • possessional — of, relating to, or characterized by possession
  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
  • postaccident — occurring after an accident
  • postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
  • poster paint — an opaque, water-based, typically bright-colored paint with a glue-size or gum binder, that is suitable for use on posters and is usually packaged in jars.
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • postneonatal — of, relating to, or occurring in the (four week) period after birth
  • potentiality — the state or quality of being potential.
  • potentiation — the act of potentiating
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • practitioner — a person engaged in the practice of a profession, occupation, etc.: a medical practitioner.
  • prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
  • praxinoscope — a toy in which a sequence of images, depicted on the inner surface of a cylinder and reflected in a series of mirrors, gives the illusion of motion as the cylinder rotates
  • prayer plant — a plant, Maranta leuconeura, native to Brazil, that is widely cultivated for its variegated leaves that close up at night.
  • pre-assigned — Law. to transfer: to assign a contract.
  • pre-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
  • pre-contract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • pre-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
  • pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
  • pre-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • pre-prandial — You use pre-prandial to refer to things you do or have before a meal.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
  • preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
  • preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
  • preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • preassurance — a guarantee or assurance offered beforehand
  • precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • precipitance — the quality or state of being precipitant.
  • precipitancy — the quality or state of being precipitant.
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