12-letter words containing p, o, u, l, a
- procedurally — of or relating to a procedure or procedures, especially of a court of law, legislative body, or law enforcement agency.
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- proper value — characteristic root.
- 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.
- prothalamium — prothalamion.
- 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.
- 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.
- psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.
- punctulation — the state of being punctulate
- pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
- repopularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- 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.
- retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
- royal purple — a deep bluish purple.
- scapulomancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- scolopaceous — (of birds or other animals) like a snipe, a shore bird with a straight beak
- scrophularia — a member of a genus of flowering plants which have a square stem and are known as figworts
- semi-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
- sexual spore — a spore formed after the fusion of gametes and an asexual spore is the result of asexual reproduction
- shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
- sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- solar plexus — Also called celiac plexus. Anatomy. a network of nerves situated at the upper part of the abdomen, behind the stomach and in front of the aorta.
- somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
- south platte — a river flowing NE from central Colorado to the Platte River in W Nebraska. 424 miles (683 km) long.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
- sub-tropical — Sub-tropical places have a climate that is warm and wet, and are often near tropical regions.
- subapostolic — of or relating to the era after that of the Apostles
- suboccipital — situated below the occipital bone or the occipital lobe of the brain.
- subopercular — of or relating to the suboperculum
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- superordinal — relating to the superorder
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- superposable — to place above or upon something else, or one upon another.
- supplication — an act or instance of supplicating; humble prayer, entreaty, or petition.
- supplicatory — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- supraglottal — situated above the glottis