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12-letter words containing p, u, c

  • pressure ice — a general term for ice broken and deformed by stresses generated by wind, currents, or waves.
  • prestructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
  • presubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
  • primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
  • probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
  • procedurally — of or relating to a procedure or procedures, especially of a court of law, legislative body, or law enforcement agency.
  • proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
  • produce race — a race for the offspring of parents identified or characterized at the time of nomination.
  • producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
  • product line — all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer.
  • product mark — a trademark used on only one product.
  • productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • productivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • pronouncedly — strongly marked: a pronounced fishy taste.
  • pronouncings — utterances, esp of an official or judgmental nature
  • propaedeutic — pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction.
  • 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.
  • protactinium — a radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Pa; atomic number: 91.
  • protoduction — (jargon)   A prototype that ends up in a production environment.
  • protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
  • protuberancy — protuberance.
  • prussic acid — weakly acidic extremely poisonous aqueous solution of hydrogen cyanide
  • 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.
  • pseudocoelom — the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
  • pseudocyesis — false pregnancy.
  • pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
  • pseudoscheme — A translator from Scheme to Common Lisp by Jonathan Rees <[email protected]>. Version 2.8. It conforms to all of R3RS except call/cc and requires Common Lisp. Runs on Lucid, Symbolics CL, VAX Lisp, Explorer CL. Mailing list: [email protected]
  • 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
  • psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
  • pterocarpous — having winged fruit.
  • public enemy — a person or thing considered a danger or menace to the public, especially a wanted criminal widely sought by the F.B.I. and local police forces.
  • public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
  • public house — British. a tavern.
  • public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
  • public works — government-funded construction
  • puck control — an offensive strategy to maintain control of the puck to prevent the other team from having scoring opportunities.
  • puck-carrier — the player who has the puck and moves it along.
  • pudding club — the state of being pregnant (esp in the phrase in the pudding club)
  • pudding rice — a type of short-grained rice that is suitable for making into a rice pudding
  • pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
  • 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.
  • puffa jacket — a warm quilted and padded jacket
  • pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • pulp chamber — the crown portion of the pulp cavity.
  • pulp fiction — fiction dealing with lurid or sensational subjects, often printed on rough, low-quality paper manufactured from wood pulp.
  • pumice stone — abrasive stone used for exfoliating
  • pumice-stone — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
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