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12-letter words containing p, e, r, i, o

  • overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
  • overoptimism — a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
  • overoptimist — someone who is too optimistic
  • overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
  • overplotting — the provision of an excessively elaborate plot
  • overpowering — that overpowers; overwhelming: an overpowering conviction of the truth.
  • overripeness — the state of being too ripe
  • overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
  • oversimplify — make too simple
  • overspending — the act or an instance of spending in excess of one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated
  • overtime pay — a higher than normal rate of pay, for work done as overtime
  • pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
  • packet radio — (communications, radio)   The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
  • paedomorphic — showing signs of paedomorphism
  • paint roller — a roller of absorbent material, mounted on a handle, that is rolled in a trough of paint and then rolled over a flat surface to be painted.
  • pakeha māori — (in the 19th century) a European who adopted the Māori way of life
  • paleoliberal — a person advocating a more extreme form of liberalism, especially in politics.
  • paper profit — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
  • papier colle — collage.
  • paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
  • paralipomena — Chronicles.
  • 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°
  • parasol pine — stone pine (def 1).
  • parasphenoid — a bone next to the sphenoid bone in the skull of some animals
  • paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
  • parish house — a building used by a church chiefly for administrative and social purposes.
  • parity error — (storage, communications)   An error discovered by the inclusion of a parity bit.
  • parma violet — a variety of the sweet violet, Viola odorata, that is the source of an essential oil used in perfumery.
  • parochialise — to make parochial.
  • parochialize — to make parochial.
  • paroemiology — the study of proverbs
  • partial tone — one of the pure tones forming a part of a complex tone.
  • particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
  • parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
  • pas de trois — a dance for three dancers.
  • peabody bird — the white-throated sparrow.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • pectoriloquy — vocalization through the chest wall, indicating a cavity or consolidation of the lung
  • pedomorphism — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
  • 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
  • pelvic floor — muscles beneath the pelvis
  • pend oreille — a river in NE Washington, N Idaho, and SE British Columbia, flowing NW to the Columbia River. 130 miles (209 km) long.
  • pentacrinoid — a larval crinoid resembling members of the genus Pentacrinus
  • 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
  • peremptorily — leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command.
  • perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
  • perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
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