12-letter words containing s, p, i, r, o
- prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- prediscovery — a previous discovery
- predisposing — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- 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.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
- prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
- preparations — measures done in order to prepare for something; provisions
- prepsychotic — exhibiting behavior that indicates the approach of a psychotic reaction.
- prerecession — of the period before a recession
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- 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.
- presentation — an act of presenting.
- preservation — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- press office — a section of a government department or other organization responsible for dealing with the press
- prestigiator — someone who practises sorcery or prestidigitation
- prestriction — the obstruction of sight
- pretensioned — (in prestressed-concrete construction) to apply tension to (reinforcing strands) before the concrete is poured. Compare posttension (def 1).
- previsionary — having foresight
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- print unions — the trade unions within the printing industry
- prior to sth — If something happens prior to a particular time or event, it happens before that time or event.
- prison fever — typhus.
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
- processioner — a member of a procession
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- proctoclysis — the slow, continuous introduction of a solution into the rectum to improve fluid intake.
- proctologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the rectum and anus.
- prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
- prodigiosity — the state or quality of being immense, extraordinary or astonishing
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- proditorious — traitorous
- professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- professorial — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- progenitress — a female progenitor (parent or ancestor)
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- promissorily — (in law) in a promissory way
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- pronouncings — utterances, esp of an official or judgmental nature
- proof spirit — an alcoholic liquor, or mixture of alcohol and water, containing a standard amount of alcohol. In the U.S. proof spirit has a specific gravity of .93353 (containing one half of its volume of alcohol of a specific gravity of .7939 at 60° F). In Britain proof spirit has a specific gravity of .91984.
- propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
- propagandist — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.