12-letter words containing p, r, i, e, t
- picture tube — a cathode-ray tube with a screen at one end on which images are reproduced.
- picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
- pied a terre — a residence, as an apartment, for part-time or temporary use.
- pied-a-terre — a residence, as an apartment, for part-time or temporary use.
- piet-my-vrou — a cuckoo, Notococcyx solitarius, having a red breast
- pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
- pilot ladder — Jacob's ladder (def 2a).
- pinch hitter — Baseball. a substitute who bats for a teammate, often at a critical moment of the game.
- pinch-hitter — a batter who acts as a substitute for the scheduled batter
- pipe routing — Pipe routing is the planning of pipeline layout, which includes considerations of neatness, economy, and safety.
- pipe rupture — A pipe rupture is a break in a pipeline.
- pirate coast — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
- pirate perch — a purplish North American freshwater fish, Aphredoderus sayanus, the adult of which has the vent located in back of the lower jaw.
- pirate radio — radio broadcasting illegally
- pisciculture — the breeding, rearing, and transplantation of fish by artificial means.
- 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.
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- 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
- pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
- pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
- poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
- poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
- point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
- 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.
- pointe-noire — a seaport in the S Republic of Congo.
- pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
- 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.
- port-etienne — former name of Nouadhibou.
- 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.
- 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.