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12-letter words containing p, e, s, a

  • possessional — of, relating to, or characterized by possession
  • post-harvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
  • postaccident — occurring after an accident
  • postage paid — stamped ready for mailing
  • postal meter — a postal franking machine
  • postal order — money order.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
  • postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
  • poster board — a thick, fairly stiff cardboard composed of layers of paper or paper pulp compressed together and typically used to support displays.
  • poster paint — an opaque, water-based, typically bright-colored paint with a glue-size or gum binder, that is suitable for use on posters and is usually packaged in jars.
  • postfracture — taking place after a fracture
  • postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postliterate — of or relating to a (hypothetical) time or stage in society when literacy is no longer necessary or valued
  • postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • postneonatal — of, relating to, or occurring in the (four week) period after birth
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • power assist — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • power-stream — to stream and watch (multiple videos, episodes of a TV show, etc.) in one sitting or over a short period of time.
  • prairie rose — a climbing rose, Rosa setigera, of the central U.S., having pinkish to white flowers: the state flower of North Dakota.
  • prairie soil — a soil that forms in subhumid, temperate regions with tall grass as native vegetation.
  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
  • praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
  • praxinoscope — a toy in which a sequence of images, depicted on the inner surface of a cylinder and reflected in a series of mirrors, gives the illusion of motion as the cylinder rotates
  • prayer beads — the beads of the rosary
  • prayer shawl — a tallith.
  • prayerlessly — in a prayerless manner, without the use of prayer
  • pre-assembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
  • pre-assigned — Law. to transfer: to assign a contract.
  • pre-disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
  • pre-estimate — to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately: to estimate the cost of a college education.
  • pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
  • pre-purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • pre-socratic — of or relating to the philosophers or philosophical systems of the period before the Socratic period.
  • preachership — the office of a preacher
  • preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
  • preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
  • preassurance — a guarantee or assurance offered beforehand
  • prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
  • precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
  • precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • preclassical — occurring or existing in, produced during or characteristic of a period prior to the classical period
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • predestinate — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
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