12-letter words containing p, y, a, t, i
- capital levy — a tax on capital or property as contrasted with a tax on income
- capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
- carry permit — a license to carry a handgun on one's person.
- cataphysical — perverse; contrary to nature
- chalcopyrite — a widely distributed yellow mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron in tetragonal crystalline form: the principal ore of copper. Formula: CuFeS2
- charity shop — A charity shop is a shop that sells used goods cheaply and gives its profits to a charity.
- cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
- chip away at — If you chip away at something such as an idea, a feeling, or a system, you gradually make it weaker or less likely to succeed by repeated efforts.
- christophany — an appearance or emergence of Christ following his crucifixion
- city company — (in Britain) a corporation that represents one of the historic trade guilds of London
- company time — the regular hours during which employees are expected to work
- compaternity — the relationship between the godparents of a child or between the godparents and the child's parents.
- conspiratory — the act of conspiring.
- corporeality — the state or quality of being corporeal; bodily existence
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptomerias — Plural form of cryptomeria.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- curietherapy — a form of radiation therapy using radium
- cyberspastic — (humour) A person suffering from information overload while browsing the Internet or web. Compare webhead.
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- day-tripping — to travel as a day-tripper.
- depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- diet pyramid — food pyramid (def 2).
- dinner party — social gathering over evening meal
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- display type — type larger than body type, used in headings, advertisements, etc.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- drinks party — a cocktail party
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- egyptian mau — a breed of medium-sized cat with a spotted coat of medium length
- elliptically — In the form of an ellipse.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- empathically — In an empathic manner.
- emphatically — In a forceful way.
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
- enantiopathy — the treatment of disease by opposites; allopathy
- enantiotropy — the possibility for stable polymorphs to exist in different states on either side of a transition-point temperature
- enhypostasia — personalities existing in union (Jesus Christ and God the Son)
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- entropically — By means of or in relation to entropy.
- ephemerality — (uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
- erythropenia — A decrease in the number of erythrocytes, associated with anemia.
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- filial piety — (in Confucianism) the important virtue and primary duty of respect, obedience, and care for one's parents and elderly family members.