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12-letter words containing p, a, t, i, o

  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  • phonocamptic — possessing the property of reflecting sound or producing an echo
  • phonotactics — the patterns in which the phonemes of a language may combine to form sequences.
  • phosphatidic — of or relating to a phosphatide
  • phosphatidyl — an atom or group of atoms containing one or more unpaired electrons derived from a phosphatide
  • phosphaturia — the presence of an excessive quantity of phosphates in the urine.
  • photo-ageing — premature wrinkling of the skin caused by overexposure to sunlight
  • photoactinic — emitting radiation having the chemical effects of light and ultraviolet rays, as on a photographic film.
  • photodynamic — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
  • photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
  • photographic — of or relating to photography.
  • photomachine — a machine that prints copies of digital photographs
  • photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • photovoltaic — of or relating to the photovoltaic effect.
  • phycoxanthin — a yellow pigment found in brown seaweeds and types of algae
  • physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • phytonadione — vitamin K1.
  • pictographic — a pictorial sign or symbol.
  • pictorialism — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • pictorialist — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • pictorialize — to make pictorial; illustrate or represent with or as if with pictures.
  • pig-ignorant — extremely ignorant or unknowledgeable
  • pigmentation — coloration, especially of the skin.
  • pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
  • pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
  • pilot ladder — Jacob's ladder (def 2a).
  • pilot signal — a signal, as a flag or light, used to request a pilot.
  • piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
  • pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
  • pipe tobacco — tobacco suitable for use in a tobacco pipe
  • pirate coast — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
  • pirate radio — radio broadcasting illegally
  • placentation — Anatomy, Zoology. the formation of a placenta. the manner of placement or construction of a placenta.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • plagiotropic — growing more or less divergent from the vertical.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • plastic foam — expanded plastic.
  • plastination — a technique for embalming bodies by impregnating whole organs with silicon polymers
  • plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
  • platonically — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
  • play it cool — If you play it cool, you deliberately behave in a calm, unemotional way because you do not want people to know you are enthusiastic or angry about something.
  • play it cozy — to act cautiously so as to avoid risk
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • poète maudit — a poet who receives insufficient recognition in his or her own time
  • poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
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