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

  • preassurance — a guarantee or assurance offered beforehand
  • precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
  • precisionism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
  • precisionist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
  • preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
  • preconstruct — to construct beforehand
  • prenticeship — an apprenticeship
  • prepubescent — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
  • prerecession — of the period before a recession
  • preschooling — the education of preschool children.
  • prescreening — to screen in advance; select before a more detailed selecting process.
  • prescription — Medicine/Medical. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day.
  • preselection — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
  • 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.
  • press agency — news-reporting organization
  • press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
  • prestriction — the obstruction of sight
  • pretenceless — without pretence
  • prices index — an official list of the price of goods
  • primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
  • processioner — a member of a procession
  • proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
  • prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
  • pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
  • re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
  • receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
  • receptionist — a person employed to receive and assist callers, clients, etc., as in an office.
  • recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • reinspection — the act or process of reinspecting
  • repercussion — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
  • reprocessing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
  • resipiscence — acknowledgment that one has been mistaken
  • resplendence — a resplendent quality or state; splendor.
  • rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • schizophrene — a person with schizophrenia or one who tends toward schizophrenia
  • schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • science park — A science park is an area, usually linked to a university, where there are a lot of private companies, especially ones concerned with high technology.
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • scorekeeping — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
  • screen peace — (tool)   A screen saver for Microsoft Windows by Anthony Andersen. Released as charityware. It can load extension modules with filename extension ".SPX".
  • screen print — artwork made by screen-printing
  • screen-print — a print made by the silkscreen process.
  • screen-wiper — windshield wiper.
  • sea scorpion — scorpionfish.
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