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

  • proper psalm — a psalm used only on a particular day or feast
  • propertyless — that which a person owns; the possession or possessions of a particular owner: They lost all their property in the fire.
  • proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
  • prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
  • prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
  • prosperously — having or characterized by financial success or good fortune; flourishing; successful: a prosperous business.
  • protensively — in the manner of duration
  • protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
  • provableness — the quality of being provable
  • psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
  • pseudoallele — a false allele
  • pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
  • pseudocoelom — the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
  • pseudopodial — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
  • pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
  • psychobabble — writing or talk using jargon from psychiatry or psychotherapy without particular accuracy or relevance.
  • psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
  • psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
  • public house — British. a tavern.
  • purple prose — writing that calls attention to itself because of its obvious use of certain effects, as exaggerated sentiment or pathos, especially in an attempt to enlist or manipulate the reader's sympathies.
  • purposefully — having a purpose.
  • put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
  • put to sleep — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
  • pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • reproachless — irreproachable.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • roselle park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
  • 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)
  • sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
  • sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
  • saw palmetto — a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth.
  • scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
  • 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.
  • scolopaceous — (of birds or other animals) like a snipe, a shore bird with a straight beak
  • 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-concept — the idea or mental image one has of oneself and one's strengths, weaknesses, status, etc.; self-image.
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