12-letter words containing p, o, i, l, u
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- photophilous — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
- pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- ploughwright — a person who makes ploughs
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- plurilocular — possessing many cells
- police court — an inferior court with summary jurisdiction for the trial of persons accused of any of certain minor offenses, and with power to examine those charged with more serious offenses and hold them for trial in a superior court or for a grand jury.
- polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
- polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
- polystichous — arranged in rows or series.
- polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc
- popping plug — a fishing lure that makes a popping sound when pulled along the surface of the water
- populational — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- postal union — an international agreement on postal rates and services.
- postdiluvial — existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- postliminium — postliminy.
- postliminous — occurring after; subsequent
- poststimulus — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following the administering of a stimulus
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- pouilly-fume — a dry, white wine from the Loire Valley of France.
- powerbuilder — (tool, database) A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
- premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- pro-equality — the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability: promoting equality of opportunity in the workplace.
- probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- product line — all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- propitiously — presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.
- prothalamium — prothalamion.
- pseudopodial — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
- public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
- public house — British. a tavern.
- public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
- public works — government-funded construction
- puerto limon — Limón (def 2).