12-letter words containing p, a, s, o
- pseudopodial — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
- pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
- pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
- psychobabble — writing or talk using jargon from psychiatry or psychotherapy without particular accuracy or relevance.
- psychography — the supposed writing of a spirit or medium
- psychomachia — conflict of the soul
- psychopathic — of, relating to, or affected with psychopathy.
- psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
- psychosocial — of or relating to the interaction between social and psychological factors.
- pterocarpous — having winged fruit.
- pterosaurian — a pterosaur
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- push forward — keep advancing
- put to shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
- put years on — to make (someone) feel or look much older
- pyloroplasty — the surgical alteration of the pylorus, usually a widening to facilitate the passage of food from the stomach to the duodenum.
- pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
- radioisotope — a radioactive isotope, usually artificially produced: used in physical and biological research, therapeutics, etc.
- radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
- rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
- reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
- reciprocates — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- release copy — an article, notice, announcement, or the like, issued in advance for publication or broadcast, bearing a release date.
- repairperson — a person whose occupation is the making of repairs, readjustments, etc.
- report stage — the stage preceding the third reading in the passage of a bill through Parliament, at which the bill, as amended in committee, is reported back to the chamber considering it
- reproachless — irreproachable.
- respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
- responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
- resupination — a resupinate condition.
- rhabdosphere — a minute sphere made up of rhabdoliths
- rhizocarpous — having the root perennial but the stem annual, as perennial herbs.
- rhizophagous — feeding on roots.
- road sweeper — a person who sweeps roads
- rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
- rose pogonia — a North American terrestrial orchid, Pogonia ophioglossoides, having a fragrant, usually solitary rose-pink or white flower.
- roselle park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- rotary press — a printing press in which the type or plates to be printed are fastened upon a rotating cylinder and are impressed on a continuous roll of moving paper.
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- safe-deposit — providing safekeeping for valuables: a safe-deposit vault.
- sage sparrow — a small gray finch, Amphispiza belli, of dry, brushy areas of western North America.
- sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
- saint joseph — a city in NW Missouri, on the Missouri River.
- saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
- sales report — a periodical report made by a salesperson to a manager giving details of amounts sold, existing and new accounts, etc
- saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)