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

  • pkware, inc. — (company, compression)   The company, founded by Phil Katz in 1986, which produces the PKZIP and PKUNZIP compression tools and libraries for many platforms. Address: 201 E. Pittsburgh Ave., Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204 USA
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plane strain — Plane strain is a two-dimensional state of strain in which all the shape changes of a material happen on a single plane.
  • plasteriness — the state of being made of or resembling plaster
  • 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.
  • plea bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • plea-bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
  • point spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
  • point-spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • pollen grain — a single granule of pollen.
  • pompeian red — a dull, grayish red.
  • 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
  • porcellanize — to bake into porcelain
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • predestinate — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
  • prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
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