12-letter words containing s, i, p
- palimpsestic — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palingenesis — rebirth; regeneration.
- palm islands — a group of three man-made island systems under construction just off the shore in Dubai, each in the shape of a palm tree
- palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
- paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
- palynologist — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
- pan-asianism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance of all the Asian nations.
- pan-islamism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
- panaesthesia — an individual's general awareness or perception
- panarthritis — arthritis in the entire joint
- pancreatitis — inflammation of the pancreas.
- panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
- panning shot — pan3 (def 6).
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- panspermatic — relating to panspermia
- pantisocracy — a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal
- pantophagist — an omnivore
- papistically — in the manner of the Roman Catholic Church or a Roman Catholic
- paracentesis — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- paracystitis — inflammation of the connective tissue around the urinary bladder.
- paradisaical — paradisiacal.
- paradisiacal — of, like, or befitting paradise.
- paraesthesia — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
- paraesthetic — paresthesia.
- paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
- parallelwise — in a parallel manner
- paralysingly — in a manner that paralyses
- parameterise — to describe (a phenomenon, problem, curve, surface, etc.) by the use of parameters.
- paramorphism — the process by which a paramorph is formed.
- paraphimosis — inability to retract the penis into the prepuce as a result of narrowing of the prepuce
- paraphrasing — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
- paraphrastic — having the nature of a paraphrase.
- parapophysis — the process of a vertebra
- parapsychism — the experience of mental phenomena that are beyond the scope of normal physical explanation
- parascending — parasailing
- parasitaemia — the condition of having parasites in the blood
- parasiticide — an agent or preparation that destroys parasites.
- parasitology — the branch of biology dealing with parasites and the effects of parasitism.
- parasol pine — stone pine (def 1).
- parasphenoid — a bone next to the sphenoid bone in the skull of some animals
- parasynapsis — the conjugation of chromosomes side by side; synapsis.
- parenthesize — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- parish house — a building used by a church chiefly for administrative and social purposes.
- parisyllabic — (of a noun or verb, in inflected languages) containing the same number of syllables in all or almost all inflected forms
- parkinsonian — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, related to, or resembling Parkinson's disease.