12-letter words containing p, r, e, l, i, t
- presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- presterilise — to sterilise in advance
- presterilize — to sterilize in advance
- pretendingly — falsely
- preventively — Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic.
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- primogenital — relating to primogeniture
- private bill — a congressional or parliamentary bill involving the private interests of a particular individual, corporation, or local unit.
- private life — the social or family life or personal relationships of an individual, esp of a person in the public eye, such as a politician or celebrity
- pro-equality — the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability: promoting equality of opportunity in the workplace.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic
- probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- product line — all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
- protectingly — in a protective manner
- protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- protreptical — didactic
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- psi particle — any of a family of mesons consisting of a charmed quark and a charmed antiquark.
- puerto limon — Limón (def 2).
- purlin plate — (in a curb roof) a purlin at the top of a lower slope supporting the ends of the upper rafters at the curb.
- pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
- pyroelectric — pertaining to, subject to, or manifesting pyroelectricity.
- pyrophyllite — Mineralogy. a phyllosilicate, AlSi 2 O 5 (OH), usually having a white or greenish color, and occurring in either foliated or compact masses, the latter variety being used like soapstone.
- recapitalize — to renew or change the capital of.
- recapitulate — to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
- redemptively — serving to redeem.
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- repetitively — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
- replantation — to plant again.
- repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- reputability — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- 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.
- reputatively — according to reckoning; by repute; putatively
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
- retail price — amount sth costs in shops
- retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- rumble strip — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- 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.
- semitropical — subtropical.