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12-letter words containing p, r, e, l, i, t

  • pitch circle — an imaginary circle within the profiles of the teeth of a gear, such that it rotates against a similar circle rotating at the same rate on a meshing gear.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plane strain — Plane strain is a two-dimensional state of strain in which all the shape changes of a material happen on a single plane.
  • plasteriness — the state of being made of or resembling plaster
  • plate girder — an iron or steel beam built up from plates and shapes welded or riveted together, usually including a plate or plates for a web, four angle irons forming two flanges, and a pair of plates to reinforce the flanges.
  • pleiotropism — the condition of a gene affecting more than one characteristic of the phenotype
  • pluriliteral — (in Hebrew grammar) containing more than three letters in the root
  • poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
  • police court — an inferior court with summary jurisdiction for the trial of persons accused of any of certain minor offenses, and with power to examine those charged with more serious offenses and hold them for trial in a superior court or for a grand jury.
  • poliorcetics — the science of siegecraft
  • politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
  • polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
  • polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
  • poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
  • port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
  • porthole die — a die having several openings for the extrusion of separate parts of an object later formed by the welding or fusing together of these parts.
  • porto amelia — former name of Pemba (def 2).
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
  • poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postliterate — of or relating to a (hypothetical) time or stage in society when literacy is no longer necessary or valued
  • poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • pralltriller — inverted mordent.
  • pre-election — a choice or selection made beforehand.
  • pre-electric — pertaining to, derived from, produced by, or involving electricity: an electric shock.
  • pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • precipitable — capable of being precipitated.
  • predictively — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
  • predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
  • preeminently — eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing: He is preeminent in his profession.
  • preemptively — of or relating to preemption.
  • preestablish — to establish beforehand.
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • prelatically — in the manner of a prelate
  • premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
  • premaritally — in a premarital manner
  • preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
  • presbyterial — of or relating to a presbytery.
  • preselection — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
  • presentially — in a presential way
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