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12-letter words containing s, p, r, u, c, e

  • pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
  • pre-purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • preassurance — a guarantee or assurance offered beforehand
  • precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
  • precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
  • precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
  • preconstruct — to construct beforehand
  • prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
  • prepubescent — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
  • presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
  • prescheduled — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
  • press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
  • pressed duck — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
  • pressure ice — a general term for ice broken and deformed by stresses generated by wind, currents, or waves.
  • prestructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
  • presubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
  • primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
  • proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
  • producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
  • pseudo force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
  • pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
  • pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
  • pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
  • pterocarpous — having winged fruit.
  • purchase tax — a sales tax on nonessential and luxury goods.
  • ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
  • repercussion — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
  • repercussive — causing repercussion; reverberating.
  • rescue party — a group of people who attempt to rescue, find or save a person or people for danger, esp a person or people who have got lost while mountain climbing
  • respectfully — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
  • schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • semiprecious — (of a stone) having commercial value as a gem but not classified as precious, as the amethyst or garnet.
  • shrimp sauce — a sauce made from shrimps
  • sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
  • special jury — struck jury.
  • special rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
  • speculatrice — a female speculator
  • spencer gulf — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in S Australia, between the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas. Length: about 320 km (200 miles). Greatest width: about 145 km (90 miles)
  • sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
  • stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
  • stumpknocker — spotted sunfish.
  • subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
  • subopercular — of or relating to the suboperculum
  • suboperculum — a bone in fishes behind the operculum or gill covering
  • subscriptive — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
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