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12-letter words containing p, r, e, c, d, n

  • open verdict — law: coroner's jury finding
  • panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
  • parascending — parasailing
  • payment card — A payment card is a plastic card which you use like a credit card, but which takes the money directly from your bank account.
  • peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
  • pedantocracy — rule by pedants; a system of government by pedants
  • pediatrician — a physician who specializes in pediatrics.
  • pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
  • penny arcade — an amusement hall or area that contains coin-operated entertainment devices, originally operated for a penny a play.
  • pentacrinoid — a larval crinoid resembling members of the genus Pentacrinus
  • periodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the study and treatment of diseases of the periodontium.
  • pindaric ode — an ode consisting of several units, each of which is composed of a strophe and an antistrophe of identical form followed by a contrasting epode.
  • plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • ponce around — If you say that someone is poncing around or poncing about, you mean that they are not doing something properly, quickly, or seriously.
  • pre-conclude — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • preconceived — to form a conception or opinion of beforehand, as before seeing evidence or as a result of previously held prejudice.
  • preconcerted — prearranged; settled in advance
  • precondition — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
  • predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • preinduction — occurring before an induction
  • preordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
  • presentenced — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
  • prices index — an official list of the price of goods
  • privatdocent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • product line — all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer.
  • pronouncedly — strongly marked: a pronounced fishy taste.
  • propanedioic — malonic.
  • provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
  • pudding rice — a type of short-grained rice that is suitable for making into a rice pudding
  • punched card — a card having holes punched in specific positions and patterns so as to represent data to be stored or processed mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.
  • re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
  • reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
  • resplendence — a resplendent quality or state; splendor.
  • rice pudding — dessert made from rice and milk
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • superconduct — to conduct electricity very efficiently or without resistance, to act as a superconductor
  • unapproached — not approached; not able to be approached or neared
  • unchaperoned — not chaperoned; not accompanied by a chaperone
  • undeciphered — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • under-script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
  • underpricing — the state of being priced at too low a level or amount
  • underproduce — to produce (goods) below full capacity or below demand
  • underspecify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
  • unpersecuted — not persecuted
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