12-letter words containing p, u, t, a, i
- panic button — an alarm button for use in an emergency, as to summon help.
- pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- parrot tulip — a variety of the cultivated tulip Tulipa gesnerana, having variously colored, often double flowers with fringed petals.
- particularly — in a particular or to an exceptional degree; especially: He read it with particularly great interest.
- particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- pauciloquent — using few words in speech or conversation
- paying guest — lodger
- payout ratio — the ratio between dividends paid out and earnings per share of common stock within a time period.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- perichaetium — a leafy cluster (bracts) around the base of the reproductive organs of some plants, predominantly mosses
- periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
- perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
- perpetualist — someone who holds to any form of perpetualism
- perpetuality — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- perpetuating — to make perpetual.
- perpetuation — to make perpetual.
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- perturbation — the act of perturbing.
- perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- pharmaceutic — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- phosphaturia — the presence of an excessive quantity of phosphates in the urine.
- picture card — face card
- picture rail — bar from which pictures are hung
- picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
- 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
- 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
- pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
- poète maudit — a poet who receives insufficient recognition in his or her own time
- 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.
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- premium-rate — (relating to telephone calls) charged at a higher than standard rate
- pro-equality — the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability: promoting equality of opportunity in the workplace.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).