12-letter words containing s, c, r, e
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overcompress — to compress, squeeze or condense excessively
- overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overexercise — to exercise excessively
- overfocussed — too focussed
- overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
- overniceness — the quality of being overnice
- overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- overscutched — overworked; worn out
- overseas cap — a soft, brimless military cap
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- owl's clover — any of several western American plants belonging to the genus Orthocarpus, of the figwort family, having dense spikes of flowers in a variety of colors with conspicuous bracts.
- owl's-clover — any of a genus (Orthocarpus) of plants of the figwort family of W North and South America; esp., a California species (O. purpurascens) with red or purple upper leaves
- oyster sauce — thick oyster-flavoured Asian relish
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
- pan scrubber — a rough sponge, often made of steel wool, used for scrubbing saucepans, frying pans, etc
- pancreatitis — inflammation of the pancreas.
- panspermatic — relating to panspermia
- paracenteses — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- paracentesis — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- paraesthetic — paresthesia.
- parascending — parasailing
- parasiticide — an agent or preparation that destroys parasites.
- parcel shelf — flat storage panel in a vehicle
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- parochialise — to make parochial.
- participates — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
- particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- past perfect — pluperfect.
- pastry cream — a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc
- pay increase — a rise in pay or salary
- pearlescence — a pearly lustre or sheen
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
- percent sign — a symbol (%) for “percent”: a 10% drop in population.
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- percutaneous — administered, removed, or absorbed by way of the skin, as an injection, needle biopsy, or transdermal drug.
- pericarditis — inflammation of the pericardium.
- perichoresis — the relationship between or interlinking of the three Persons of the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)
- period costs — Period costs are general costs that cannot be associated with a particular product, such as utilities or insurance.
- periodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the study and treatment of diseases of the periodontium.
- periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
- periphrastic — circumlocutory; roundabout.
- peristeronic — of, pertaining to, or resembling pigeons
- peristomatic — surrounding a leaf's stoma or stomata
- peristrephic — that turns around or revolves