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12-letter words containing r, o, l, e, i

  • poliorcetics — the science of siegecraft
  • politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
  • pollen grain — a single granule of pollen.
  • polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
  • polydisperse — of or noting a sol that contains particles of different sizes.
  • polyhedrosis — an often fatal disease of certain insect larvae or decapod crustaceans, caused by viruses containing DNA.
  • polyisoprene — a thermoplastic polymer, (C 5 H 8) n , the major constituent of natural rubber and also obtained synthetically.
  • polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
  • polyribosome — polysome.
  • poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcelainize — to make into or coat with porcelain or something resembling porcelain.
  • porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
  • porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
  • porcellanize — to bake into 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.
  • porthole die — a die having several openings for the extrusion of separate parts of an object later formed by the welding or fusing together of these parts.
  • porto amelia — former name of Pemba (def 2).
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
  • poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
  • 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
  • poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie soil — a soil that forms in subhumid, temperate regions with tall grass as native vegetation.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • pre-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
  • pre-election — a choice or selection made beforehand.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
  • predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
  • prednisolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid, C 2 1 H 2 8 O 5 , used in various forms to treat inflammation and allergies and in the treatment of acute leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and lymphomas.
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
  • premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
  • preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
  • prenominally — before a noun
  • preschooling — the education of preschool children.
  • preselection — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
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