12-letter words containing p, i, e, o
- overcropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- overemphasis — excessive or undue emphasis.
- overemphatic — excessive or undue emphasis.
- overequipped — having too much equipment
- overexplicit — excessively explicit
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- 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
- pack of lies — false account
- 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).
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
- paedobaptist — a person who baptizes infants
- paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
- paedogenesis — sexual reproduction in an animal that retains its larval features
- paedomorphic — showing signs of paedomorphism
- paedophiliac — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
- 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
- palaebiology — the study of fossil animals and plants
- palaeolithic — the period of the emergence of primitive man and the manufacture of unpolished chipped stone tools, about 2.5 million to 3 million years ago until about 12 000 bc
- paleo-indian — of, relating to, or characteristic of a New World cultural stage, c22,000–6000 b.c., distinguished by fluted-point tools and cooperative hunting methods.
- paleobiology — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
- paleoclimate — the climate of some former period of geologic time.
- paleoliberal — a person advocating a more extreme form of liberalism, especially in politics.
- paleological — the study of antiquities.
- pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
- pancytopenia — an abnormally low level of all blood cells
- pantechnicon — a furniture van; moving van.
- 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.