12-letter words containing p, t, i, l
- apparitional — of or relating to an apparition or apparitions; ghostly, spectral
- appellations — Plural form of appellation.
- appellatives — Plural form of appellative.
- appetisingly — Alternative spelling of appetizingly.
- appetizingly — in an appetizing way
- apple blight — an aphid, Eriosoma lanigera, that is covered with a powdery waxy secretion and infests apple trees
- appletviewer — (web, testing) A simplified web browser used for testing applets. You can't browse HTML with it but you can run applets to test them before embedding them in a web page.
- applications — Plural form of application.
- applied arts — arts that are put to practical use
- appositional — the act of placing together or bringing into proximity; juxtaposition.
- archetypical — Archetypical means the same as archetypal.
- arctophilist — a collector of teddy bears
- aspirational — If you describe someone as aspirational, you mean that they have strong hopes of moving to a higher social status.
- assumptively — taken for granted.
- asymptotical — of or relating to an asymptote.
- australopith — (archaeology, anthropology, paleonotology) Of or pertaining to the extinct hominid primates, of the genus Australopithecus, from the Pleistocene period.
- autoptically — in an autoptical manner
- b-s particle — a neutral meson with a mass 10,507 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.6 X 10 -12 seconds.
- backup light — Backup lights are the white lights on the back of a vehicle that shine when the vehicle moves backward.
- banana split — A banana split is a kind of dessert. It consists of a banana cut in half along its length, with ice cream, nuts, and sauce on top.
- bathophilous — (of an organism) living in very deep water
- bathypelagic — of, relating to, or inhabiting the lower depths of the ocean between approximately 1000 and 4000 metres
- beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
- bell captain — a person in charge of a group of bellhops
- betting slip — a piece of paper used to place a bet
- bibliopegist — a bookbinder
- bicycle path — a path designed for bicyclists
- biparentally — from a biparental point of view
- bipropellant — a rocket propellant consisting of two substances, usually a fuel and an oxidizer
- bitter apple — colocynth
- blister pack — a type of packet in which small items are displayed and sold, consisting of a transparent dome of plastic or similar material mounted on a firm backing such as cardboard
- blood typing — the classification of human blood cells to determine compatible blood types as for transfusion or organ transplant
- blotting-pad — an object to one side of which a piece of blotting paper is attached for blotting text handwritten in ink
- blue pointer — a large shark, Isuropsis mako, of Australian coastal waters, having a blue back and pointed snout
- blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
- body politic — The body politic is all the people of a nation when they are considered as a complete political group.
- bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
- bomber pilot — the pilot of a bomber
- bridal party — the people who accompany the bride as she comes to her wedding
- bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
- bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
- bully pulpit — If someone in a prominent job or position publicly expresses their opinions about a particular subject, you can say that they are using their job or position as a bully pulpit.
- capabilities — the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.
- capacitively — (physics, electronics) In relation to or in terms of capacitance.
- capital city — the seat of government of a country or other political unit
- capital cost — a cost incurred on the purchase of land, buildings, construction and equipment to be used in the production of goods or the rendering of services
- capital gain — the amount by which the selling price of a financial asset exceeds its cost
- capital levy — a tax on capital or property as contrasted with a tax on income
- capital loss — A capital loss is a loss on investment property.
- capital ship — one of the largest and most heavily armed ships in a naval fleet