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

  • peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
  • pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
  • pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
  • pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
  • pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
  • pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
  • pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
  • penalization — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
  • pend oreille — a river in NE Washington, N Idaho, and SE British Columbia, flowing NW to the Columbia River. 130 miles (209 km) long.
  • pension plan — a systematic plan created and maintained, as by a corporation, to make regular payments of benefits to retired or disabled employees, either on a contributory or a noncontributory basis.
  • pentapolitan — of or pertaining to a pentapolis
  • perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • percussional — of or relating to percussion
  • perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
  • peritoneally — through the peritoneum
  • perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
  • perorational — of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a peroration
  • personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • personalized — customized
  • phaeomelanin — a variety of melanin that gives rise to a red-coloured pigment
  • phalaenopsis — any of various epiphytic orchids of the genus Phalaenopsis, native to tropical Asia, having clusters of showy, variously colored flowers.
  • phantom limb — a phenomenon characterized by the experience of pain, discomfort, or other sensation in the area of a missing limb or other body part, as a breast.
  • phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phentolamine — an alpha blocker, C 1 7 H 1 9 N 3 O, used to reduce hypertensive states caused by a catecholamine excess, as in the treatment of pheochromocytoma.
  • philanthropy — altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, by endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by generosity to other socially useful purposes.
  • philharmonic — fond of or devoted to music; music-loving: used especially in the name of certain musical societies that sponsor symphony orchestras (Philharmonic Societies) and hence applied to their concerts (philharmonic concerts)
  • philodendron — a tropical American climbing plant belonging to the genus Philodendron, of the arum family, usually having smooth, shiny, evergreen leaves, often used as an ornamental houseplant.
  • phoenixville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
  • phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  • phonological — relating to study of speech sounds
  • photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
  • phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
  • phrenologize — to treat with phrenology or phrenological methods
  • phylogenesis — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • piano lesson — music class in playing the piano
  • piano nobile — the principal story of a large building, as of a palace or villa.
  • piano player — pianist.
  • pigeon blood — dark red.
  • pigeon clock — a device for timing the arrivals of pigeons being raced, consisting of a magazine for holding the identification bands of the contestants in the order in which they are inserted and a recording clock to register the times of insertion.
  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • pilot engine — a locomotive sent on ahead of a railroad train to see that the way is clear and the track safe.
  • pilot signal — a signal, as a flag or light, used to request a pilot.
  • piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
  • pinch roller — a flexible device that presses magnetic tape against the capstan in a tape recorder.
  • pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
  • placentation — Anatomy, Zoology. the formation of a placenta. the manner of placement or construction of a placenta.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
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