12-letter words containing p, r, o, s, c, e
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- powder chest — a small wooden box containing a charge of powder, old nails, scrap iron, etc., formerly secured over the side of a ship and exploded on the attempt of an enemy to board.
- 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-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- pre-socratic — of or relating to the philosophers or philosophical systems of the period before the Socratic period.
- precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- 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.
- precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
- preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
- preconstruct — to construct beforehand
- prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- prediscovery — a previous discovery
- preprocessor — a program that performs some type of processing, as organization of data or preliminary computation, in advance of another program that will perform most of the processing.
- prepsychotic — exhibiting behavior that indicates the approach of a psychotic reaction.
- prerecession — of the period before a recession
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- prescription — Medicine/Medical. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day.
- preselection — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
- press office — a section of a government department or other organization responsible for dealing with the press
- prestriction — the obstruction of sight
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- process data — data processing
- process shot — a shot in which action takes place in front of a screen on which an image already filmed is projected
- processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
- processioner — a member of a procession
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- proper class — a class which cannot itself be a member of other classes
- propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
- proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- protosemitic — the hypothetical parent language of the Semitic group of languages
- pseudo force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
- pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
- psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychrometer — an instrument for determining atmospheric humidity by the reading of two thermometers, the bulb of one being kept moist and ventilated.