12-letter words containing p, o, e, l, i
- profile plan — a diagrammatic fore-and-aft elevation of the hull of a vessel, showing bow and buttock lines, stations, water lines, diagonals, decks, bulwarks, etc.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
- protectingly — in a protective manner
- protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- protreptical — didactic
- proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
- pseudopodial — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
- psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
- public house — British. a tavern.
- public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
- puerto limon — Limón (def 2).
- pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
- pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
- pyroelectric — pertaining to, subject to, or manifesting pyroelectricity.
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- pyrophyllite — Mineralogy. a phyllosilicate, AlSi 2 O 5 (OH), usually having a white or greenish color, and occurring in either foliated or compact masses, the latter variety being used like soapstone.
- railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
- ranging pole — a pole for marking positions in surveying
- rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- reciprocally — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- replantation — to plant again.
- repopularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- reputational — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
- retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
- retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- ripe old age — advanced age
- role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
- role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- self-imposed — imposed on one by oneself: a self-imposed task.
- self-opinion — opinion of oneself, especially when unduly high.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- semi-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.