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

  • jeopardizing — Present participle of jeopardize.
  • job printing — commercial printing of such items as letterheads, circulars, invitations, etc.
  • joking apart — seriously: said to recall a discussion to seriousness after there has been joking
  • karyomapping — a technique for determining whether an embryo has inherited a genetic defect by analysing DNA taken from it and its close relatives
  • katamorphism — metamorphism at or near the earth's surface: breaks down complex minerals into simpler ones.
  • keeping room — hall (def 11).
  • kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
  • kleptocratic — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
  • labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
  • lactoprotein — any protein existing in milk.
  • lamprophyric — belonging or relating to a lamprophyre
  • laparoscopic — a flexible fiberoptic instrument, passed through a small incision in the abdominal wall and equipped with biopsy forceps, an obturator, scissors or the like, with which to examine the abdominal cavity or perform minor surgery.
  • laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
  • laparotomize — to perform a laparotomy on.
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • leopard lily — a tall lily, Lilium pardalinum, of California, having drooping, orange-red flowers with purple speckles, a yellow base, and recurved petal tips.
  • lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
  • lepidopteron — any lepidopterous insect.
  • lepidosirens — Plural form of lepidosiren.
  • leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
  • lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • liar paradox — a logical paradox that results from consideration of statements of the form “This statement is false.” If the statement is true, then it is false, whereas if it is false, then it is true.
  • liberty pole — Also called liberty tree. American History. a pole or tree, often with a liberty cap or a banner at the top, usually located on a village green or in a market square, used by the Sons of Liberty in many colonial towns as a symbol of protest against British rule and around which anti-British rallies were held.
  • life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
  • life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
  • ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
  • lincoln park — a city in SE Michigan.
  • line probing — A feature of some V.34 modems that will allow them to identify the capacity and quality of the phone line and adjust themselves to allow, for each individual connection, for maximum throughput using the highest possible data transmission rate.
  • linespersons — Plural form of linesperson.
  • liopleurodon — Any of the genus Liopleurodon of large carnivorous marine plesiosaurs, apex predators of the Middle to Late Jurassic seas that covered Europe.
  • lipoproteina — a plasma lipoprotein containing protein and cholesterol, high levels of which are associated with atherosclerosis.
  • lipoproteins — Plural form of lipoprotein.
  • liposarcomas — Plural form of liposarcoma.
  • lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
  • lithographer — a person who works at lithography.
  • lithographic — Of, relating to, or produced by lithography.
  • lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
  • lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
  • lithotripter — a device used for fragmenting kidney stones with ultrasound waves.
  • lithotriptic — causing the destruction of bladder stones
  • liverpolitan — a native or inhabitant of Liverpool
  • living proof — sb whose existence is evidence of sth
  • loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
  • london pride — a saxifragaceous plant, a hybrid between Saxifraga spathularis and S. umbrosa, having a basal rosette of leaves and pinkish-white flowers
  • low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
  • luteotrophic — affecting the corpus luteum.
  • lycanthropic — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
  • macrophysics — the branch of physics that deals with physical objects large enough to be observed and treated directly.
  • madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.
  • malapportion — to apportion improperly or unfairly (voting districts, a legislature, etc.)
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