12-letter words containing p, r, o, n
- protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
- protuberancy — protuberance.
- provableness — the quality of being provable
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- provincetown — a town at the tip of Cape Cod, in SE Massachusetts: resort.
- provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
- provincially — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- provisionary — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- provisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- provitamin a — carotene.
- pruning hook — an implement with a hooked blade, used for pruning vines, branches, etc.
- pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
- psychotronic — of or relating to a genre of usually low-budget movies that includes horror, fantasy, science-fiction, and underground films.
- pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
- pterosaurian — a pterosaur
- puck control — an offensive strategy to maintain control of the puck to prevent the other team from having scoring opportunities.
- puerto limon — Limón (def 2).
- puerto montt — a city in S Chile.
- puerto rican — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
- puncturation — the act of puncturing
- punditocracy — influential media pundits collectively.
- purification — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- purple heron — an Old World heron, Ardea purpurea, having maroon, buff, and black plumage.
- put down for — If you put someone down for something, you write down their name and the fact that they are going to do, give, or buy that thing.
- put in order — arrange correctly
- put years on — to make (someone) feel or look much older
- putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- pyonephritis — suppurative inflammation of the kidney.
- pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
- pyritohedron — a crystal form of 12 pentagonal faces.
- pyrogenicity — the characteristic of causing fever
- pyrognostics — the characteristics of a mineral, such as fusibility and flame coloration, that are revealed by the application of heat
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
- pyromaniacal — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
- pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
- pythonomorph — any of various large extinct marine reptiles of the former order Pythonomorpha
- quadraphonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- quadriphonic — quadraphonic.
- quadrophonic — Alternative spelling of quadraphonic.
- radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
- railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
- ranging pole — a pole for marking positions in surveying
- rappahannock — a river flowing SE from N Virginia into the Chesapeake Bay: Civil War battle 1863. 185 miles (300 km) long.
- re-apportion — to apportion or distribute anew.
- reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
- read up (on) — to become well informed (about) by reading
- readaptation — the act of adapting.
- reaping hook — a curved cutting tool with a sharp edge, used in the cutting or harvesting of crops