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

  • photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
  • photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
  • photoglyphic — of or relating to photoglyphy
  • photophilous — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
  • photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • photovoltaic — of or relating to the photovoltaic effect.
  • 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
  • phycologists — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
  • phylogenesis — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • physiologies — the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
  • physiologist — a specialist in physiology.
  • phytobiology — the branch of biology dealing with plants.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • 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.
  • pictorialism — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • pictorialist — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • pictorialize — to make pictorial; illustrate or represent with or as if with pictures.
  • picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
  • 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.
  • pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
  • pilfer-proof — (of a supply, stock, container, etc) protected from or not susceptible to pilfering
  • pillow block — a cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing.
  • pillow fight — a mock fight in which participants thump each other with pillows
  • pillow sword — a straight sword of the 17th century.
  • 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 jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
  • pilot ladder — Jacob's ladder (def 2a).
  • 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
  • plagioclimax — the climax stage of a community, influenced by man or some other outside factor
  • plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
  • plagiotropic — growing more or less divergent from the vertical.
  • plain people — the Mennonites, Dunkers, and Amish people
  • plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • plastic foam — expanded plastic.
  • plastination — a technique for embalming bodies by impregnating whole organs with silicon polymers
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