12-letter words containing p, a, t, r, i, l
- postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
- practicalism — devotion to practical matters.
- practicalist — devotion to practical matters.
- practicality — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- pralltriller — inverted mordent.
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
- precipitable — capable of being precipitated.
- preestablish — to establish beforehand.
- prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
- preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
- prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
- prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
- prelatically — in the manner of a prelate
- premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
- premaritally — in a premarital manner
- presbyterial — of or relating to a presbytery.
- presentially — in a presential way
- presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- primogenital — relating to primogeniture
- principality — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
- private bill — a congressional or parliamentary bill involving the private interests of a particular individual, corporation, or local unit.
- private life — the social or family life or personal relationships of an individual, esp of a person in the public eye, such as a politician or celebrity
- pro-catholic — of or relating to a Catholic church, especially the Roman Catholic Church.
- pro-equality — the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability: promoting equality of opportunity in the workplace.
- pro-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic
- proclamation — something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- prolongation — the act of prolonging: the prolongation of a line.
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- prophylactic — defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug.
- proportional — having due proportion; corresponding.
- prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
- prostacyclin — a prostaglandin, C 2 0 H 3 2 O 5 , that specifically inhibits the formation of blood clots.
- prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
- prothalamium — prothalamion.
- protoplasmic — Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
- prototypical — the original or model on which something is based or formed.
- protreptical — didactic
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- psi particle — any of a family of mesons consisting of a charmed quark and a charmed antiquark.
- purlin plate — (in a curb roof) a purlin at the top of a lower slope supporting the ends of the upper rafters at the curb.