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12-letter words containing p, i, l, o, n

  • pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.
  • pulp fiction — fiction dealing with lurid or sensational subjects, often printed on rough, low-quality paper manufactured from wood pulp.
  • punctulation — the state of being punctulate
  • push polling — the use of loaded questions in a supposedly objective telephone opinion poll during a political campaign in order to bias voters against an opposing candidate
  • pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
  • pyromaniacal — a compulsion to set things on fire.
  • railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
  • ranging pole — a pole for marking positions in surveying
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • replantation — to plant again.
  • repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
  • reputational — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
  • responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
  • responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
  • retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
  • ribbon plant — spider plant (def 1).
  • risk pooling — Risk pooling is the practice of sharing all risks among a group of insurance companies.
  • role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
  • role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
  • rolling plan — a plan which is designed to continue over a period of time and is subject to regular review and updating
  • saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
  • salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
  • sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
  • scalp lotion — A scalp lotion is a liquid medication for the treatment of scalp conditions and disorders.
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • scorpion fly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
  • self-opinion — opinion of oneself, especially when unduly high.
  • self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
  • silicon chip — A silicon chip is a very small piece of silicon inside a computer. It has electronic circuits on it and can hold large quantities of information or perform mathematical or logical operations.
  • silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
  • silver spoon — spoon (def 16).
  • simple simon — a simpleton.
  • simplon pass — a pass over the Lepontine Alps in S Switzerland, between Brig (Switzerland) and Iselle (Italy). Height: 2009 m (6590 ft)
  • siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
  • slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
  • slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
  • smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
  • snowy mespil — a N American tree, Amelanchier Lamarckii, that produces small white flowers in spring
  • span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • speciational — relating to speciation
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • spiflication — rough treatment
  • spin control — Slang. an attempt to give a bias to news coverage, especially of a political candidate or event.
  • spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
  • spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
  • splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
  • split second — a fraction of a second.
  • splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
  • spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
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