12-letter words containing p, o, i, r
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- outstripping — to outdo; surpass; excel.
- over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- over-precise — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- over-promise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- overcapacity — capacity beyond what is normal, allowed, or desirable.
- overcropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- overemphasis — excessive or undue emphasis.
- overemphatic — excessive or undue emphasis.
- overequipped — having too much equipment
- overexplicit — excessively explicit
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
- overoptimism — a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- overoptimist — someone who is too optimistic
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- overplotting — the provision of an excessively elaborate plot
- overpowering — that overpowers; overwhelming: an overpowering conviction of the truth.
- overripeness — the state of being too ripe
- overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- oversimplify — make too simple
- overspending — the act or an instance of spending in excess of one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated
- overtime pay — a higher than normal rate of pay, for work done as overtime
- pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
- pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
- packet radio — (communications, radio) The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
- paedomorphic — showing signs of paedomorphism
- paimio chair — a chair developed by Alvar Aalto between 1930 and 1933, having two continuous, ribbonlike elements made of bent laminated birch veneers forming the arms and legs and supporting a sheet of bent plywood that forms the back and seat.
- pain control — methods for the relief and management of pain
- paint roller — a roller of absorbent material, mounted on a handle, that is rolled in a trough of paint and then rolled over a flat surface to be painted.
- pakeha māori — (in the 19th century) a European who adopted the Māori way of life
- paleoliberal — a person advocating a more extreme form of liberalism, especially in politics.
- palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- panchromatic — sensitive to all visible colors, as a photographic film.
- pantisocracy — a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal
- paper profit — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
- papier colle — collage.
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- paradoxidian — relating to the genus Paradoxides
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- paraffin-oil — a white or colorless, tasteless, odorless, water-insoluble, solid substance not easily acted upon by reagents, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons chiefly of the alkane series, obtained from crude petroleum: used in candles, for forming preservative coatings and seals, for waterproofing paper, etc.
- paralation c — Paralation embedded in C. Under development.
- paralipomena — Chronicles.
- paralyzation — to affect with paralysis.
- paramorphine — thebaine.
- paramorphism — the process by which a paramorph is formed.
- paranoically — in a paranoiac manner
- paranthelion — a bright spot in the sky caused by refraction and occurring at an angular distance from the sun of between 90° and 140°
- paraphimosis — inability to retract the penis into the prepuce as a result of narrowing of the prepuce
- parapophysis — the process of a vertebra