12-letter words containing p, o, e, t, r
- project note — a short-term municipal note issued by a local government housing agency to finance a public housing project.
- projectivity — of or relating to projection.
- promethazine — a phenothiaxine derivative, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 2 S, used for the symptomatic relief of allergies and in the management of motion sickness.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- proof sheets — trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) read for the correction of errors; proofs
- proof stress — the load per unit area that a structure can withstand without being permanently deformed by more than a specified amount.
- proof theory — (logic) The branch of logic describing procedures for combining logical statements to show, by a series of truth-preserving transformations, that one statement is a consequence of some other statement or group of statements.
- propaedeutic — pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction.
- property law — the branch of law dealing with issues relating to land and houses
- property man — a member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
- property tax — a tax levied on real or personal property.
- propertyless — that which a person owns; the possession or possessions of a particular owner: They lost all their property in the fire.
- propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
- proportioned — adjusted to proper proportion or relation.
- proprietress — a woman who owns a business establishment.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- prose writer — a person who writes prose
- prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- prosperities — a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
- prostanthera — any bush of the Australian genus Prostanthera, with red or white flowers and strongly scented leaves
- protectingly — in a protective manner
- protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- protectorate — the relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls.
- protein-coat — the coiled or polyhedral structure, composed of proteins, that encloses the nucleic acid of a virus.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- protest vote — a ballot cast for a candidate with a minimal chance of winning, to register dislike for the other candidates.
- protestation — the act of protesting or affirming.
- protosemitic — the hypothetical parent language of the Semitic group of languages
- protosynthex — A query system for English text.
- prototherian — belonging or pertaining to the group Prototheria, comprising the monotremes.
- protreptical — didactic
- protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
- protuberancy — protuberance.
- proudhearted — full of pride.
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- provincetown — a town at the tip of Cape Cod, in SE Massachusetts: resort.
- proximities' — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
- pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
- pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
- psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychrometer — an instrument for determining atmospheric humidity by the reading of two thermometers, the bulb of one being kept moist and ventilated.
- psychrometry — the employment of the psychrometer.
- pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
- pteridophyte — any plant of the division Pteridophyta, characterized by vascular tissue and differentiation into root, stem, and leaves, comprising the ferns, horsetails, and club mosses.
- pteridosperm — seed fern.
- pterocarpous — having winged fruit.
- pteroic acid — a crystalline acid found in spinach