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12-letter words containing p, o, r, e, l

  • postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
  • poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
  • poster color — poster paint.
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postliterate — of or relating to a (hypothetical) time or stage in society when literacy is no longer necessary or valued
  • pot-walloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • power shovel — any self-propelled shovel for excavating earth, ore, or coal with a dipper that is powered by a diesel engine or electric motor. Compare shovel (def 2).
  • power supply — power supply unit
  • 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).
  • powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie soil — a soil that forms in subhumid, temperate regions with tall grass as native vegetation.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • pre-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
  • pre-conclude — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
  • pre-election — a choice or selection made beforehand.
  • pre-enrolled — to write the name of (a person) in a roll or register; place upon a list; register: It took two days to enroll the new students.
  • pre-modelled — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
  • precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
  • predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
  • prednisolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid, C 2 1 H 2 8 O 5 , used in various forms to treat inflammation and allergies and in the treatment of acute leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and lymphomas.
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
  • pregnenolone — a steroid precursor to steroid hormones
  • prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
  • 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.
  • preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
  • prenominally — before a noun
  • preovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
  • preschooling — the education of preschool children.
  • preselection — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
  • primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
  • prince royal — the eldest son of a king or queen.
  • pro-employer — a person or business that employs one or more people, especially for wages or salary: a fair employer.
  • pro-equality — the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability: promoting equality of opportunity in the workplace.
  • problem area — a place that is prone to a particular problem or danger, such as flooding or road-traffic accidents
  • problem page — a feature in a newspaper, magazine, etc in which readers' problems are published and answers supplied
  • problem-free — without problems
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