12-letter words containing p, o, r, e, l
- pyrophyllite — Mineralogy. a phyllosilicate, AlSi 2 O 5 (OH), usually having a white or greenish color, and occurring in either foliated or compact masses, the latter variety being used like soapstone.
- pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
- railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
- ranging pole — a pole for marking positions in surveying
- rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- reciprocally — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- redeployment — to transfer (a unit, a person, supplies, etc.) from one theater of operations to another.
- reemployment — an act or instance of employing someone or something.
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- release copy — an article, notice, announcement, or the like, issued in advance for publication or broadcast, bearing a release date.
- replantation — to plant again.
- reply coupon — a coupon sent with an international letter which can be exchanged for stamps sufficient to send a letter back in reply
- repopularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- reproachable — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- reproachless — irreproachable.
- reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- repromulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- reputational — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- responseless — an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
- retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
- retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
- rhopaloceral — of or relating to creatures from the Rhopalocera division of animals, which includes all butterflies, distinguished from moths on account of their club-shaped antennae
- ripe old age — advanced age
- rocker panel — body paneling below the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
- rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
- role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
- role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
- roselle park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- rotten apple — You can use rotten apple to talk about a person who is dishonest and therefore causes a lot of problems for the group or organization they belong to.
- royal purple — a deep bluish purple.
- sales report — a periodical report made by a salesperson to a manager giving details of amounts sold, existing and new accounts, etc
- saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
- scatter plot — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- sclerophylly — the normal development of much sclerenchyma in the leaves of certain plants, as some desert plants, resulting in thickened, hardened foliage that resists loss of moisture.
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- semi-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
- semitropical — subtropical.
- seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus