12-letter words containing p, l, a, t, s
- capital loss — A capital loss is a loss on investment property.
- capital ship — one of the largest and most heavily armed ships in a naval fleet
- capitalising — Present participle of capitalise.
- capitalistic — Capitalistic means supporting or based on the principles of capitalism.
- capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
- carpet tiles — small pieces of carpeting laid as tiles to cover a floor
- castile soap — a hard soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide
- cataphysical — perverse; contrary to nature
- catastrophal — (rare) Catastrophic.
- caterpillars — Plural form of caterpillar.
- caterpillers — Archaic spelling of caterpillarst; Plural form of caterpiller.
- cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
- 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.
- chloroplasts — Plural form of chloroplast.
- chromoplasts — Plural form of chromoplast.
- clapham sect — a group of early 19th-century Church of England evangelicals advocating personal piety, the abolition of slavery, etc
- cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
- coleopterans — Plural form of coleopteran.
- compilations — Plural form of compilation.
- complainants — Plural form of complainant.
- complex salt — a salt that contains one or more complex ions
- compulsative — compulsory
- compulsatory — compulsory
- contemplates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contemplate.
- copperplates — Plural form of copperplate.
- 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.
- 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)
- counterpleas — Plural form of counterplea.
- craftspeople — Craftspeople are people who make things skilfully with their hands.
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- cryptanalyst — the procedures, processes, methods, etc., used to translate or interpret secret writings, as codes and ciphers, for which the key is unknown.
- 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.
- dactyloscopy — the analysis of fingerprints for the purpose of identification
- 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.
- decapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of decapsulate.
- deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- deposit loan — a loan to cover the cost of a deposit on something such as rented accommodation
- depositional — of or relating to a deposition
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- despoliation — the act of despoiling; plunder or pillage