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

  • plagiarising — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • plagiaristic — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
  • plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
  • plagiotropic — growing more or less divergent from the vertical.
  • 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.
  • planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • plasteriness — the state of being made of or resembling plaster
  • plastic arts — arts producing works or effects that are three-dimensional, as sculpture or ceramics
  • plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
  • plate girder — an iron or steel beam built up from plates and shapes welded or riveted together, usually including a plate or plates for a web, four angle irons forming two flanges, and a pair of plates to reinforce the flanges.
  • 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.
  • pluriliteral — (in Hebrew grammar) containing more than three letters in the root
  • plurilocular — possessing many cells
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • pogson ratio — the brightness ratio of two celestial objects that differ by one magnitude. On the Pogson scale a difference of 5 magnitudes is defined as a difference of 100 in the intensities of two stars; therefore a difference of 1 magnitude is equal to the fifth root of 100, i.e. 2.512
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
  • pollen grain — a single granule of pollen.
  • polyarchical — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
  • 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
  • pompeian red — a dull, grayish red.
  • pons varolii — pons (def 1).
  • pontificator — 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
  • porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
  • porcellanize — to bake into porcelain
  • porismatical — porismatic
  • pornographic — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
  • 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 captain — an official in charge of the harbor activities of a seaport.
  • porto amelia — former name of Pemba (def 2).
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