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12-letter words containing p, i, l, a, r, n

  • play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
  • player piano — a piano that can play automatically when the keys are actuated electronically or by a pneumatic device controlled by a piano roll.
  • playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
  • plea bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • plea-bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • polarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
  • pollen grain — a single granule of pollen.
  • pons varolii — pons (def 1).
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcelainize — to make into or coat with porcelain or something resembling porcelain.
  • porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
  • porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
  • porcellanize — to bake into porcelain
  • port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
  • postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
  • postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • pratincolous — living in a meadow.
  • pre-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
  • pre-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • pre-prandial — You use pre-prandial to refer to things you do or have before a meal.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
  • preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
  • preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
  • prelapsarian — Theology. occurring before the Fall: the prelapsarian innocence of Eden.
  • prelingually — in a prelingual manner
  • premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
  • premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
  • prenominally — before a noun
  • presentially — in a presential way
  • presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
  • primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
  • prince royal — the eldest son of a king or queen.
  • principality — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
  • pro-colonial — of, concerning, or pertaining to a colony or colonies: the colonial policies of France.
  • procellarian — a bird species from the genus Procellaria
  • processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
  • proclamation — something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
  • prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
  • productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
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