12-letter words containing p, i, t, o, s, r
- pre-position — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
- pre-socratic — of or relating to the philosophers or philosophical systems of the period before the Socratic period.
- precisionist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
- preparations — measures done in order to prepare for something; provisions
- prepsychotic — exhibiting behavior that indicates the approach of a psychotic reaction.
- prescription — Medicine/Medical. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day.
- preselection — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
- presentation — an act of presenting.
- preservation — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- prestigiator — someone who practises sorcery or prestidigitation
- prestriction — the obstruction of sight
- pretensioned — (in prestressed-concrete construction) to apply tension to (reinforcing strands) before the concrete is poured. Compare posttension (def 1).
- print unions — the trade unions within the printing industry
- prior to sth — If something happens prior to a particular time or event, it happens before that time or event.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- proctoclysis — the slow, continuous introduction of a solution into the rectum to improve fluid intake.
- proctologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the rectum and anus.
- prodigiosity — the state or quality of being immense, extraordinary or astonishing
- proditorious — traitorous
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- progenitress — a female progenitor (parent or ancestor)
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- proof spirit — an alcoholic liquor, or mixture of alcohol and water, containing a standard amount of alcohol. In the U.S. proof spirit has a specific gravity of .93353 (containing one half of its volume of alcohol of a specific gravity of .7939 at 60° F). In Britain proof spirit has a specific gravity of .91984.
- propagandist — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
- propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
- propitiously — presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.
- propositions — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
- proprietress — a woman who owns a business establishment.
- proscription — the act of proscribing.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- prose writer — a person who writes prose
- prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
- prosperities — a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
- prostacyclin — a prostaglandin, C 2 0 H 3 2 O 5 , that specifically inhibits the formation of blood clots.
- prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- prostitution — the act or practice of engaging in sexual intercourse for money.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- protestation — the act of protesting or affirming.
- protistology — the biology of the Protista.
- protohistory — a branch of study concerned with the transition period between prehistory and the earliest recorded history.
- protoplasmic — Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
- protosemitic — the hypothetical parent language of the Semitic group of languages
- proximities' — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
- psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychotronic — of or relating to a genre of usually low-budget movies that includes horror, fantasy, science-fiction, and underground films.
- psychotropic — affecting mental activity, behavior, or perception, as a mood-altering drug.