12-letter words containing p, a, s
- pack of lies — false account
- packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
- packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
- paedobaptist — a person who baptizes infants
- paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
- paedogenesis — sexual reproduction in an animal that retains its larval features
- pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
- paki-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked physical assaults upon Pakistani immigrants or people of Pakistani descent
- palais glide — a dance with high kicks and gliding steps in which performers link arms in a row
- pale-skinned — having pale skin
- palimpsestic — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palingenesis — rebirth; regeneration.
- palm islands — a group of three man-made island systems under construction just off the shore in Dubai, each in the shape of a palm tree
- palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
- paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
- palynologist — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
- pampas grass — a tall, ornamental grass, Cortaderia selloana, native to South America, having large, thick, feathery, silvery-white panicles.
- pamperedness — the state of being pampered
- pan and scan — a technique for changing the aspect ratio of a wide-screen film, usually by selecting the significant section of each film frame and cropping the sides, so that it can be transmitted in 4:3 aspect ratio.
- pan scrubber — a rough sponge, often made of steel wool, used for scrubbing saucepans, frying pans, etc
- pan-asianism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance of all the Asian nations.
- pan-islamism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
- panaesthesia — an individual's general awareness or perception
- panarthritis — arthritis in the entire joint
- pancreatitis — inflammation of the pancreas.
- pandanaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Pandanaceae, an Old World tropical family of monocotyledonous plants including the screw pines
- panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
- panning shot — pan3 (def 6).
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- panspermatic — relating to panspermia
- pantisocracy — a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal
- pantophagist — an omnivore
- pantophagous — characterized by pantophagy
- papadopoulos — George, 1919–99, Greek military leader and dictator (1967–74).
- papal states — the temporal domain of the popes in central Italy from 756 ad until the unification of Italy in 1870
- paper-pusher — a person who has a routine desk job.
- papistically — in the manner of the Roman Catholic Church or a Roman Catholic
- papoose-root — the blue cohosh. See under cohosh.
- paracenteses — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- paracentesis — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- paracystitis — inflammation of the connective tissue around the urinary bladder.
- paradisaical — paradisiacal.
- paradisiacal — of, like, or befitting paradise.
- paraesthesia — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.