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

  • power window — Power windows are windows in a vehicle which are raised or lowered by an electric motor operated by a button or switch.
  • power-driven — powered by an electric motor
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • 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.
  • pre-election — a choice or selection made beforehand.
  • pre-enrolled — to write the name of (a person) in a roll or register; place upon a list; register: It took two days to enroll the new students.
  • pre-ignition — ignition of the charge in an internal-combustion engine earlier in the cycle than is compatible with proper operation.
  • pre-position — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • 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.
  • preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
  • preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
  • 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.
  • precognition — knowledge of a future event or situation, especially through extrasensory means.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • preconceived — to form a conception or opinion of beforehand, as before seeing evidence or as a result of previously held prejudice.
  • preconcerted — prearranged; settled in advance
  • preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
  • precondition — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
  • preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
  • preconstruct — to construct beforehand
  • 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.
  • predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
  • 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.
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • preformation — previous formation.
  • pregnenolone — a steroid precursor to steroid hormones
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
  • prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
  • preinduction — occurring before an induction
  • premigration — occurring before migration
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