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12-letter words containing r, e, l, a, t, i

  • parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
  • patrilateral — related through the father.
  • patrilineage — lineal descent traced through the male line.
  • pearl millet — a tall grass, Pennisetum americanum (or P. glaucum), cultivated in Africa, Asia, and the southern U.S. for its edible seeds and as a forage plant.
  • pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
  • peltier heat — the heat gained or lost at a junction of a thermocouple due to the Peltier effect.
  • perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • perenniality — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
  • perichaetial — denoting the leaves in mosses that surround the archegonia and, later, the base of the sporophyte
  • perimetrical — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
  • perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
  • peritoneally — through the peritoneum
  • permeability — the property or state of being permeable.
  • perorational — of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a peroration
  • 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.
  • perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • pharmacolite — hydrous calcium arsenate, 2CaO⋅As 2 O 5 ⋅5H 2 O, formed by natural alteration of mineral deposits containing arsenopyrite and arsenical ores of cobalt and silver.
  • photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
  • pictorialize — to make pictorial; illustrate or represent with or as if with pictures.
  • picture rail — bar from which pictures are hung
  • pilot ladder — Jacob's ladder (def 2a).
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plane strain — Plane strain is a two-dimensional state of strain in which all the shape changes of a material happen on a single plane.
  • plasteriness — the state of being made of or resembling plaster
  • plate girder — an iron or steel beam built up from plates and shapes welded or riveted together, usually including a plate or plates for a web, four angle irons forming two flanges, and a pair of plates to reinforce the flanges.
  • pluriliteral — (in Hebrew grammar) containing more than three letters in the root
  • politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
  • port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
  • porto amelia — former name of Pemba (def 2).
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postliterate — of or relating to a (hypothetical) time or stage in society when literacy is no longer necessary or valued
  • pralltriller — inverted mordent.
  • pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • precipitable — capable of being precipitated.
  • preestablish — to establish beforehand.
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
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