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

  • pig islander — a New Zealander
  • 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.
  • 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
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • point source — a source of radiation sufficiently distant compared to its length and width that it can be considered as a point.
  • point spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
  • point-spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
  • policeperson — a member of a police force.
  • polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
  • polyisoprene — a thermoplastic polymer, (C 5 H 8) n , the major constituent of natural rubber and also obtained synthetically.
  • polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
  • porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
  • porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
  • poster paint — an opaque, water-based, typically bright-colored paint with a glue-size or gum binder, that is suitable for use on posters and is usually packaged in jars.
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
  • praxinoscope — a toy in which a sequence of images, depicted on the inner surface of a cylinder and reflected in a series of mirrors, gives the illusion of motion as the cylinder rotates
  • pre-assigned — Law. to transfer: to assign a contract.
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • pre-existing — to exist beforehand.
  • pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
  • pre-position — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
  • pre-shipping — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
  • 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.
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • predestinate — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
  • prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
  • predisposing — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • prednisolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid, C 2 1 H 2 8 O 5 , used in various forms to treat inflammation and allergies and in the treatment of acute leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and lymphomas.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
  • prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
  • prelapsarian — Theology. occurring before the Fall: the prelapsarian innocence of Eden.
  • prenticeship — an apprenticeship
  • preparations — measures done in order to prepare for something; provisions
  • prerecession — of the period before a recession
  • presbyterian — pertaining to or based on the principle of ecclesiastical government by presbyters or presbyteries.
  • 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.
  • presentation — an act of presenting.
  • presentative — (of an image, idea, etc.) presented, known, or capable of being known directly.
  • presenteeism — the practice of coming to work despite illness, injury, anxiety, etc., often resulting in reduced productivity.
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