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12-letter words containing s, i, n, c, e

  • percent sign — a symbol (%) for “percent”: a 10% drop in population.
  • percussional — of or relating to percussion
  • periodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the study and treatment of diseases of the periodontium.
  • peristeronic — of, pertaining to, or resembling pigeons
  • perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
  • pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • pet scanning — the action or process of using a PET scanner to obtain an image.
  • phenocrystic — relating to a phenocryst
  • phonesthemic — (of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn- of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc.
  • physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • picnic races — horse races for amateur riders held in rural areas
  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • piercingness — the quality or condition of being piercing
  • pigeon-chest — chicken breast.
  • plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • pneumocystis — any protozoan of the genus Pneumocystis, esp P. carinii, which is a cause of pneumonia in people whose immune defences have been lowered by drugs or a disease
  • poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
  • point source — a source of radiation sufficiently distant compared to its length and width that it can be considered as a point.
  • policeperson — a member of a police force.
  • polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
  • pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • ponzi scheme — a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.
  • porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
  • porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
  • postaccident — occurring after an accident
  • postelection — the selection of a person or persons for office by vote.
  • praxinoscope — a toy in which a sequence of images, depicted on the inner surface of a cylinder and reflected in a series of mirrors, gives the illusion of motion as the cylinder rotates
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
  • precisionism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
  • precisionist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
  • preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
  • prenticeship — an apprenticeship
  • prerecession — of the period before a recession
  • preschooling — the education of preschool children.
  • prescreening — to screen in advance; select before a more detailed selecting process.
  • prescription — Medicine/Medical. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day.
  • preselection — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
  • prestriction — the obstruction of sight
  • prices index — an official list of the price of goods
  • primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
  • processioner — a member of a procession
  • prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • psittacinite — mottramite.
  • pumice stone — abrasive stone used for exfoliating
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