12-letter words containing s, p, u, r, n
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- perineuritis — inflammation of the perineurium
- periselenium — the closest point of the orbit of a spacecraft to the moon
- perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- perquisition — an intensive and meticulous examination, pursuit, or hunt for something
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
- pig industry — the people and activities involved in making pork products
- pleurogenous — Anatomy. pertaining to or originating from the pleura.
- point source — a source of radiation sufficiently distant compared to its length and width that it can be considered as a point.
- pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
- polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
- popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- porcelaneous — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- portentously — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
- preassurance — a guarantee or assurance offered beforehand
- precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
- preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
- preconstruct — to construct beforehand
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- prepubescent — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
- press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- print unions — the trade unions within the printing industry
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- profoundness — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- pronouncings — utterances, esp of an official or judgmental nature
- prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- prostitution — the act or practice of engaging in sexual intercourse for money.
- pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
- pterosaurian — a pterosaur
- pull strings — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- punta arenas — a seaport in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: the southernmost city in Chile. Formerly Magallanes.
- purblindness — the state of being purblind
- put years on — to make (someone) feel or look much older