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12-letter words containing s, n, a, i, l, p

  • 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.
  • palynologist — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
  • pan-islamism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
  • panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
  • 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.
  • paralysingly — in a manner that paralyses
  • parasol pine — stone pine (def 1).
  • pascal-linda — Ian Flockhart, U Edinburgh, 1991. Under development.
  • passing bell — a bell tolled to announce a death or funeral.
  • passing lane — a highway lane in which a driver may pass other vehicles legally.
  • passion play — a dramatic representation of the passion of Christ, as that given every ten years at the Bavarian village of Oberammergau.
  • passionately — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
  • patent still — a type of still in which the distillation is continuous
  • patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
  • pennine alps — a range of the Alps between Switzerland and Italy. Highest peak: Monte Rosa, 4634 m (15 204 ft)
  • pennsylvania — a state in the E United States. 45,333 sq. mi. (117,410 sq. km). Capital: Harrisburg. Abbreviation: PA (for use with zip code), Pa., Penn., Penna.
  • pension plan — a systematic plan created and maintained, as by a corporation, to make regular payments of benefits to retired or disabled employees, either on a contributory or a noncontributory basis.
  • penthesileia — the daughter of Ares and queen of the Amazons, whom she led to the aid of Troy. She was slain by Achilles
  • percussional — of or relating to percussion
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
  • personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • personalized — customized
  • pestilential — producing or tending to produce pestilence.
  • phalaenopsis — any of various epiphytic orchids of the genus Phalaenopsis, native to tropical Asia, having clusters of showy, variously colored flowers.
  • phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • piano lesson — music class in playing the piano
  • pig islander — a New Zealander
  • pilot signal — a signal, as a flag or light, used to request a pilot.
  • piss-elegant — displaying a contrived, often pretentious, sophistication, opulence, etc.
  • plagiarising — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • 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.
  • plain as day — obvious
  • plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • 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.
  • planetesimal — one of the small celestial bodies that, according to one theory (planetesimal hypothesis) were fused together to form the planets of the solar system.
  • plasteriness — the state of being made of or resembling plaster
  • plastination — a technique for embalming bodies by impregnating whole organs with silicon polymers
  • plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
  • plug casting — bait casting in which a plug is used as the lure.
  • plumbaginous — containing graphite.
  • plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
  • poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
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