12-letter words containing p, i, s, t, l
- ceroplastics — the art of wax modelling
- chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
- chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
- cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
- chisel point — a nail or spike with the point formed by two flat inclined sides meeting at a sharp angle.
- cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
- clovis point — flint projectile dating from the 10th millennium bc
- cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
- coleopterist — a person who studies the Coleoptera
- colposcopist — an instrument that magnifies the cells of the cervix and vagina to permit direct observation and study of the living tissue.
- compilations — Plural form of compilation.
- complainants — Plural form of complainant.
- complections — Plural form of complection.
- complexities — The complexities of something are the many complicated factors involved in it.
- complicities — Plural form of complicity.
- complicitous — having complicity
- compulsative — compulsory
- compulsivity — compulsiveness
- corporealist — a materialist
- cosmoplastic — forming the universe or the world
- cosmopolitan — A cosmopolitan place or society is full of people from many different countries and cultures.
- cosmopolites — Plural form of cosmopolite.
- cosmopolitic — cosmopolitan
- cottian alps — a mountain range in SW Europe, between NW Italy and SE France: part of the Alps. Highest peak: Monte Viso, 3841 m (12 600 ft)
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- cryptologist — cryptography.
- curtail step — the step or steps at the foot of a flight of stairs, widened at one or both ends and terminated with a scroll
- curtail-step — a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing.
- d-s particle — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- decapitalise — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- depoliticise — Alternative spelling of depoliticize.
- deposit loan — a loan to cover the cost of a deposit on something such as rented accommodation
- deposit slip — a form that you fill in when you make a deposit into a bank account; it contains information such as the amount, whether it is a cash or cheque deposit, the account number and the date
- depositional — of or relating to a deposition
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- despiteously — in a despiteous or contemptuous manner
- despoliation — the act of despoiling; plunder or pillage
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- diploblastic — having two germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, as the embryos of sponges and coelenterates.
- diplomatists — Plural form of diplomatist.
- discerptible — capable of being torn apart; divisible.
- disciplinant — a person belonging to a former order of flagellants in Spain
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- dispiritedly — discouraged; dejected; disheartened; gloomy.
- dispiteously — in a manner that lacks pity
- displacement — the act of displacing.