12-letter words containing p, r, o, c
- plerocercoid — the wormlike larval stage of some tapeworms, intermediate between the first parasitic larval stage and adult.
- plurilocular — possessing many cells
- 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
- 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.
- polar circle — either the Arctic or the Antarctic Circle.
- polariscopic — relating to a polariscope
- 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.
- police force — police (def 1).
- police power — the power of a nation, within the limits of its constitution, to regulate the conduct of its citizens in the interest of the common good.
- policeperson — a member of a police force.
- policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- poliorcetics — the science of siegecraft
- politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
- poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
- polyarchical — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
- polyhistoric — relating to a polyhistor
- polypharmacy — the use of two or more drugs together, usually to treat a single condition or disease.
- polyrhythmic — the simultaneous occurrence of sharply contrasting rhythms within a composition.
- polysaprobic — flourishing in a body of water having a heavy load of decomposed organic matter and almost no free oxygen
- 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
- porismatical — porismatic
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- pork-chopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
- 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 chester — a city in SE New York, on Long Island Sound.
- port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
- port of call — a port visited briefly by a ship, usually to take on or discharge passengers and cargo or to undergo repairs.
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- post-pyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
- 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
- postdoctoral — of or relating to study or professional work undertaken after the receipt of a doctorate: postdoctoral courses.
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.