12-letter words containing p, a, r, i, n, e
- nonempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
- nonoperating — Not operating.
- nonoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- nonpasserine — (of a bird) not belonging or relating to the Passeriformes
- nonspherical — not spherical
- oligophrenia — less than normal mental development.
- open primary — a direct primary election in which voters need not meet a test of party membership.
- open trailer — any dog that barks or bays on the trail of its quarry.
- opera singer — a professional singer of opera
- opera window — a narrow, fixed window on each side of the rear passenger compartment of an automobile.
- operationism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
- opinionnaire — A form containing a list of statements, each of which the members of a selected group are asked to endorse or reject; the purpose being to gather information for a survey.
- oppressional — Exhibiting or relating to oppression.
- organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- page printer — Computers. a high-speed, high-resolution printer that uses a light source, as a laser beam or electrically charged ions, to print a full page of text or graphics at a time.
- pain barrier — If you say that a sports player has gone through the pain barrier, you mean that he or she is continuing to make a great effort in spite of being injured or exhausted.
- paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- paint roller — a roller of absorbent material, mounted on a handle, that is rolled in a trough of paint and then rolled over a flat surface to be painted.
- pan-american — of, relating to, or representing all the countries or people of North, Central, and South America.
- pancreatitis — inflammation of the pancreas.
- panspermatic — relating to panspermia
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- paper napkin — a napkin or serviette made from tissue paper
- paperhanging — the activity or business of a paperhanger.
- pappenheimer — a heavy rapier of the 17th century, having a swept guard with two perforated plates.
- paracentesis — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- paralipomena — Chronicles.
- parallelling — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- paramagnetic — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- paramorphine — thebaine.
- paranthelion — a bright spot in the sky caused by refraction and occurring at an angular distance from the sun of between 90° and 140°
- parascending — parasailing
- parasol pine — stone pine (def 1).
- parasphenoid — a bone next to the sphenoid bone in the skull of some animals
- parchmentize — to treat (paper or the like) so that it resembles parchment.
- parenthesize — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
- paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
- paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
- parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
- partial tone — one of the pure tones forming a part of a complex tone.
- participance — participation.
- parting line — the line at which two closed dies or two halves of a mold meet.
- pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- patent right — the exclusive right granted by a patent, as on an invention.
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- patrilineage — lineal descent traced through the male line.