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12-letter words containing p, r, o, c, n

  • pernoctation — the act of staying all night in a place, esp for prayer or as a vigil
  • pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • pest control — rats, insects: extermination
  • petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • petrogenetic — relating to petrogenesis
  • phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • phenocrystic — relating to a phenocryst
  • philharmonic — fond of or devoted to music; music-loving: used especially in the name of certain musical societies that sponsor symphony orchestras (Philharmonic Societies) and hence applied to their concerts (philharmonic concerts)
  • phonographic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a phonograph.
  • photocurrent — an electric current produced by a photoelectric effect.
  • photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
  • picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
  • picrocarmine — a red powder containing carmine and picric acid which is used in staining processes
  • picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
  • pinch roller — a flexible device that presses magnetic tape against the capstan in a tape recorder.
  • pindaric ode — an ode consisting of several units, each of which is composed of a strophe and an antistrophe of identical form followed by a contrasting epode.
  • pinturicchio — real name Bernardino di Betto. ?1454–1513, Italian painter of the Umbrian school
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
  • 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.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • 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.
  • ponce around — If you say that someone is poncing around or poncing about, you mean that they are not doing something properly, quickly, or seriously.
  • pontificator — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcelainize — to make into or coat with porcelain or something resembling porcelain.
  • porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
  • porcelaneous — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
  • porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
  • porcellanize — to bake into porcelain
  • pornographic — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
  • port captain — an official in charge of the harbor activities of a seaport.
  • port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
  • postcoronary — of, relating to, or occurring after a heart attack
  • postromantic — of or relating to the period after Romanticism
  • practitioner — a person engaged in the practice of a profession, occupation, etc.: a medical practitioner.
  • pratincolous — living in a meadow.
  • 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-ceremony — the formal activities conducted on some solemn or important public or state occasion: the coronation ceremony.
  • pre-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
  • pre-conclude — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
  • pre-contract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • pre-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
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