12-letter words containing p, e, r, i, n
- paperhanging — the activity or business of a paperhanger.
- pappenheimer — a heavy rapier of the 17th century, having a swept guard with two perforated plates.
- paracentesis — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- paralipomena — Chronicles.
- parallelling — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- paramagnetic — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- paramorphine — thebaine.
- paranthelion — a bright spot in the sky caused by refraction and occurring at an angular distance from the sun of between 90° and 140°
- parascending — parasailing
- parasol pine — stone pine (def 1).
- parasphenoid — a bone next to the sphenoid bone in the skull of some animals
- parchmentize — to treat (paper or the like) so that it resembles parchment.
- parenthesize — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
- paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
- paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
- parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
- partial tone — one of the pure tones forming a part of a complex tone.
- participance — participation.
- parting line — the line at which two closed dies or two halves of a mold meet.
- 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.
- patent right — the exclusive right granted by a patent, as on an invention.
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- patrilineage — lineal descent traced through the male line.
- pay increase — a rise in pay or salary
- pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
- pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
- pediatrician — a physician who specializes in pediatrics.
- pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
- pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
- pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
- pend oreille — a river in NE Washington, N Idaho, and SE British Columbia, flowing NW to the Columbia River. 130 miles (209 km) long.
- penitentiary — a place for imprisonment, reformatory discipline, or punishment, especially a prison maintained in the U.S. by a state or the federal government for serious offenders.
- pentacrinoid — a larval crinoid resembling members of the genus Pentacrinus
- percent sign — a symbol (%) for “percent”: a 10% drop in population.
- perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- perenniality — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
- perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- pericementum — periodontal membrane.
- pericynthion — the point at which a spacecraft launched from earth into a lunar orbit is nearest the moon
- perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
- perinephrium — the capsule of connective tissue that envelops the kidney.
- perineuritis — inflammation of the perineurium
- periodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the study and treatment of diseases of the periodontium.
- periodontist — a specialist in periodontics.