12-letter words containing p, u, l, i, t
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- photophilous — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
- picture rail — bar from which pictures are hung
- pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
- pisciculture — the breeding, rearing, and transplantation of fish by artificial means.
- plain turkey — a bustard
- platitudinal — platitudinous.
- plausibility — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
- plead guilty — defendant: declare guilt
- ploughwright — a person who makes ploughs
- plug casting — bait casting in which a plug is used as the lure.
- pluriliteral — (in Hebrew grammar) containing more than three letters in the root
- police court — an inferior court with summary jurisdiction for the trial of persons accused of any of certain minor offenses, and with power to examine those charged with more serious offenses and hold them for trial in a superior court or for a grand jury.
- polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
- polystichous — arranged in rows or series.
- populational — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- postal union — an international agreement on postal rates and services.
- postdiluvial — existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- postliminium — postliminy.
- postliminous — occurring after; subsequent
- poststimulus — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following the administering of a stimulus
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- pro-equality — the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability: promoting equality of opportunity in the workplace.
- probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
- product line — all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- propitiously — presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.
- prothalamium — prothalamion.
- prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- puerto limon — Limón (def 2).
- pull strings — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- pulley stile — (in a window frame) a stile against which a window sash slides.
- pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.
- pulp fiction — fiction dealing with lurid or sensational subjects, often printed on rough, low-quality paper manufactured from wood pulp.
- punctulation — the state of being punctulate
- pupilability — confidentiality
- purlin plate — (in a curb roof) a purlin at the top of a lower slope supporting the ends of the upper rafters at the curb.
- quindecaplet — a group of 15
- recapitulate — to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
- repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- reputability — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- reputational — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- reputatively — according to reckoning; by repute; putatively
- retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease