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12-letter words containing s, p, o, t, l, a

  • oppositional — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
  • optical disc — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
  • optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
  • optimistical — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
  • optoisolator — A device that transmits a signal optically between two isolated electronic circuits.
  • osteoplastic — Surgery. pertaining to osteoplasty.
  • oyster plant — salsify.
  • 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.
  • palynologist — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
  • paraglossate — having paraglossae
  • parasitology — the branch of biology dealing with parasites and the effects of parasitism.
  • parochialist — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
  • passionately — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
  • pastoralness — the quality or state of being pastoral or rural
  • patent rolls — (in Britain) the register of patents issued
  • patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
  • pearl oyster — any of several marine bivalve mollusks of the family Pteriidae, some of which form pearls of great value, inhabiting waters of eastern Asia and off the coasts of Panama and Baja California.
  • penalty shot — a free shot at the goal defended only by the goalkeeper, awarded to an offensive player for certain defensive violations.
  • penalty spot — a point within the penalty area and 12 yards (about 11 m) from the goal, from which a penalty kick may be taken
  • pestological — relating to pestology
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • petrodollars — Petrodollars are a unit of money used to calculate how much a country has earned by exporting petroleum or natural gas.
  • phosphatidyl — an atom or group of atoms containing one or more unpaired electrons derived from a phosphatide
  • photoanalyst — a person who analyzes and interprets photographs, especially a military specialist in aerial or satellite photography.
  • photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
  • photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • phragmoplast — the cytoplasmic structure that forms at the equator of the spindle after the chromosomes have divided during the anaphase of plant mitosis, and that initiates cell division.
  • pictorialism — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • pictorialist — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • pilot signal — a signal, as a flag or light, used to request a pilot.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plasma torch — an electrical device for converting a gas into a plasma, used for melting metal
  • plasmosomata — a kind of nucleoli
  • plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
  • plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • plastic foam — expanded plastic.
  • 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
  • platanaceous — relating to the family Platanaceae
  • play clothes — clothes that are suitable for playing in
  • poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
  • polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • police state — a nation in which the police, especially a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy.
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
  • polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
  • polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
  • polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • polypetalous — having a corolla of separate petals.
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