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12-letter words containing p, i, n, e, r

  • compaternity — the relationship between the godparents of a child or between the godparents and the child's parents.
  • complimenter — a person who compliments
  • compressions — Plural form of compression.
  • conidiophore — a simple or branched hypha that bears spores (conidia) in such fungi as Penicillium
  • conidiospore — a conidium
  • conspiracies — Plural form of conspiracy.
  • consumership — the state of being a consumer
  • contemporise — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
  • contemporize — to be or make contemporary; synchronize
  • cooperations — an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
  • coprocessing — the act of processing jointly
  • copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
  • corncob pipe — a pipe made from a dried corncob
  • costophrenic — Synonym of phrenicocostal.
  • coulter pine — a California pine, Pinus coulteri, having stout, bluish-green needles and heavy cones 9 to 14 inches (23 to 36 cm) long.
  • counterpoint — Something that is a counterpoint to something else contrasts with it in a satisfying way.
  • counterpoise — a force, influence, etc, that counterbalances another
  • counterspies — Plural form of counterspy.
  • crapehanging — the practice of hanging crape, esp as a sign of mourning
  • crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
  • criosphinxes — Plural form of criosphinx.
  • crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
  • crown prince — A Crown Prince is a prince who will be king of his country when the present king or queen dies.
  • cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
  • cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
  • curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
  • cusip number — A CUSIP number is a number that identifies an individual security like a stock or a bond.
  • cyclosporine — a drug, produced by a fungus (Tolypocladium inflatum), that suppresses the T cells that reject foreign tissue after an organ transplant without suppressing other cells that fight infections and cancer
  • cypress pine — any coniferous tree of the Australian genus Callitrus, having leaves in whorls and yielding valuable timber: family Cupressaceae
  • cypress vine — a tropical American convolvulaceous climbing plant, Ipomoea pennata, having finely divided compound leaves and scarlet or white tubular flowers
  • danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
  • daphnephoria — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
  • de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
  • deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
  • decipherment — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • deportations — Plural form of deportation.
  • depreciating — Present participle of depreciate.
  • depreciation — the reduction in value of a fixed asset due to use, obsolescence, etc
  • depredations — the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
  • depressingly — In a depressing manner.
  • deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
  • derepression — the act of derepressing a gene
  • dermaplaning — a cosmetic treatment, often used to treat acne scars, in which surface irregularities are surgically scraped to give the skin a smoother appearance
  • descriptions — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
  • despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
  • deuteranopia — a form of colour blindness in which there is a tendency to confuse blues and greens, and greens and reds, and in which sensitivity to green is reduced
  • dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
  • dinner party — social gathering over evening meal
  • dinner plate — a plate for holding an individual serving of the main course of a meal.
  • dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
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