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12-letter words containing p, a, s, t, u, r

  • manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
  • maspar unity — A translator from UNITY to MPL by Martin Huber, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Version 1.0.
  • meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
  • metamorphous — metamorphic.
  • mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
  • nature strip — a grass strip in front of a house between a fence or footpath and a roadway
  • neuropathies — Plural form of neuropathy.
  • neuropathist — a specialist in treating diseases of the nervous system; a neurologist
  • neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
  • nonspiritual — Not spiritual.
  • ophiolatrous — of, relating to, or practising snake-worshipping
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • paranthropus — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Paranthropus.
  • particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
  • pass through — an act of passing.
  • pass-through — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
  • passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
  • 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.
  • pastry brush — a small, flat brush for coating pastry with butter, egg, etc.
  • pasture land — grassland used for grazing
  • pasture rose — a bristly-stemmed rose, Rosa carolina, of the eastern U.S., having slender, straight thorns and large, solitary, rose-pink flowers.
  • pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
  • patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
  • percutaneous — administered, removed, or absorbed by way of the skin, as an injection, needle biopsy, or transdermal drug.
  • periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
  • perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
  • perpetualist — someone who holds to any form of perpetualism
  • pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
  • phosphaturia — the presence of an excessive quantity of phosphates in the urine.
  • picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • postfracture — taking place after a fracture
  • postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
  • pratincolous — living in a meadow.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
  • proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
  • pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
  • pterocarpous — having winged fruit.
  • pterosaurian — a pterosaur
  • pulp plaster — plaster containing shredded wood fiber.
  • punta arenas — a seaport in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: the southernmost city in Chile. Formerly Magallanes.
  • purchase tax — a sales tax on nonessential and luxury goods.
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