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.