12-letter words containing p, e, r, l, c
- hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- hyperlipemic — characterized by an excessive level of fat in the blood
- hyperlogical — reasoning in accordance with the principles of logic, as a person or the mind: logical thinking.
- hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- hyperplastic — Of, or relating to hyperplasia.
- hypertypical — excessively typical
- hypoallergic — Hypoallergenic.
- hypochloride — Misspelling of hypochlorite.
- hypochlorite — a salt or ester of hypochlorous acid.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- impierceable — not able to be pierced
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- in principle — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incorporable — able to be incorporated.
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- inspectorial — Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.
- interspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- interspliced — Simple past tense and past participle of intersplice.
- irreciprocal — not reciprocal
- irreplacable — Misspelling of irreplaceable.
- irreplicable — Incapable of being replicated.
- japan clover — a drought-resistant bush clover, Lespedeza striata, of the legume family, introduced to the southern Atlantic states from Asia, having numerous tiny trifoliate leaves valued for pasturage and hay.
- kleptocratic — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- kupfernickel — (archaic) cupronickel.
- lactoprotein — any protein existing in milk.
- lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
- landed price — the price when delivered
- laparoscopes — Plural form of laparoscope.
- laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
- lay preacher — a preacher who is not a member of the clergy
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- leper colony — a place where people who have leprosy live in quarantine
- lesser scaup — a diving duck, Aythya marila, of Europe and America, having a black-and-white plumage in the male
- lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- linear space — vector space.
- lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
- locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
- loop reactor — A loop reactor is a reactor in which the material is pumped round one or more vessels or stages in a continuous process.
- luteotrophic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- macrocephaly — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
- malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
- marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
- metaphorical — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metempirical — beyond or outside the field of experience.
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- microcephaly — having a head with a small braincase.
- microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
- miracle play — a medieval dramatic form dealing with religious subjects such as Biblical stories or saints' lives, usually presented in a series or cycle by the craft guilds.