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12-letter words containing p, o, e, t, r

  • postexposure — occurring after a photo or image has been taken
  • postfracture — taking place after a fracture
  • postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postliterate — of or relating to a (hypothetical) time or stage in society when literacy is no longer necessary or valued
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • postmistress — a woman in charge of a post office.
  • pot-walloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
  • poverty trap — If someone is in a poverty trap, they are very poor but cannot improve their income because the money they get from the government decreases as the money they earn increases.
  • powder chest — a small wooden box containing a charge of powder, old nails, scrap iron, etc., formerly secured over the side of a ship and exploded on the attempt of an enemy to board.
  • power assist — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
  • power kiting — an activity in which a person, sitting in a small buggy or wearing skis, etc, is propelled by the wind power generated by a large kite to which he or she is attached by ropes
  • power-stream — to stream and watch (multiple videos, episodes of a TV show, etc.) in one sitting or over a short period of time.
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • practitioner — a person engaged in the practice of a profession, occupation, etc.: a medical practitioner.
  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • pre-contract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • pre-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • pre-election — a choice or selection made beforehand.
  • pre-ignition — ignition of the charge in an internal-combustion engine earlier in the cycle than is compatible with proper operation.
  • pre-position — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • pre-socratic — of or relating to the philosophers or philosophical systems of the period before the Socratic period.
  • preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
  • preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
  • precipitator — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
  • 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.
  • precognition — knowledge of a future event or situation, especially through extrasensory means.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • preconcerted — prearranged; settled in advance
  • precondition — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
  • preconstruct — to construct beforehand
  • predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • preformation — previous formation.
  • preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
  • preformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
  • preinduction — occurring before an induction
  • premigration — occurring before migration
  • prenegotiate — to discuss before a formal negotiation
  • preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
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