12-letter words containing p, o, l, i, e, n
- on principle — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- open trailer — any dog that barks or bays on the trail of its quarry.
- opinionately — in a conceited or vain manner
- oppressional — Exhibiting or relating to oppression.
- organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
- outlet point — an opening (on a pipe, etc) permitting escape or release (of liquid, etc)
- over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- overplotting — the provision of an excessively elaborate plot
- 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.
- paleo-indian — of, relating to, or characteristic of a New World cultural stage, c22,000–6000 b.c., distinguished by fluted-point tools and cooperative hunting methods.
- pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
- paralipomena — Chronicles.
- paranthelion — a bright spot in the sky caused by refraction and occurring at an angular distance from the sun of between 90° and 140°
- parasol pine — stone pine (def 1).
- partial tone — one of the pure tones forming a part of a complex tone.
- passionately — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- pauciloquent — using few words in speech or conversation
- peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
- pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
- pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
- pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
- pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
- penalization — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- pend oreille — a river in NE Washington, N Idaho, and SE British Columbia, flowing NW to the Columbia River. 130 miles (209 km) long.
- pension plan — a systematic plan created and maintained, as by a corporation, to make regular payments of benefits to retired or disabled employees, either on a contributory or a noncontributory basis.
- pentapolitan — of or pertaining to a pentapolis
- perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
- peritoneally — through the peritoneum
- perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- perorational — of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a peroration
- personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalized — customized
- phaeomelanin — a variety of melanin that gives rise to a red-coloured pigment
- phalaenopsis — any of various epiphytic orchids of the genus Phalaenopsis, native to tropical Asia, having clusters of showy, variously colored flowers.
- phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phentolamine — an alpha blocker, C 1 7 H 1 9 N 3 O, used to reduce hypertensive states caused by a catecholamine excess, as in the treatment of pheochromocytoma.
- philodendron — a tropical American climbing plant belonging to the genus Philodendron, of the arum family, usually having smooth, shiny, evergreen leaves, often used as an ornamental houseplant.
- phoenixville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
- phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
- phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
- phrenologize — to treat with phrenology or phrenological methods
- phylogenesis — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.