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12-letter words containing s, t, e, a, r, i

  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • petite sirah — a dry red wine produced mainly in California
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
  • picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
  • pirate coast — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
  • 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.
  • plasteriness — the state of being made of or resembling plaster
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • point spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
  • point-spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
  • politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • poster paint — an opaque, water-based, typically bright-colored paint with a glue-size or gum binder, that is suitable for use on posters and is usually packaged in jars.
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postliterate — of or relating to a (hypothetical) time or stage in society when literacy is no longer necessary or valued
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • power assist — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • pre-disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
  • pre-estimate — to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately: to estimate the cost of a college education.
  • pre-socratic — of or relating to the philosophers or philosophical systems of the period before the Socratic period.
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • predestinate — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
  • preestablish — to establish beforehand.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
  • preparations — measures done in order to prepare for something; provisions
  • presbyterial — of or relating to a presbytery.
  • presbyterian — pertaining to or based on the principle of ecclesiastical government by presbyters or presbyteries.
  • presentation — an act of presenting.
  • presentative — (of an image, idea, etc.) presented, known, or capable of being known directly.
  • presentially — in a presential way
  • preservation — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
  • preservative — something that preserves or tends to preserve.
  • presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
  • prestigiator — someone who practises sorcery or prestidigitation
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • proboscidate — having a proboscis.
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
  • protestation — the act of protesting or affirming.
  • psi particle — any of a family of mesons consisting of a charmed quark and a charmed antiquark.
  • pterosaurian — a pterosaur
  • quadrisected — Simple past tense and past participle of quadrisect.
  • quarterlies' — occurring, done, paid, issued, etc., at the end of every quarter of a year: a quarterly report; quarterly interest.
  • quarterpipes — Plural form of quarterpipe.
  • quasineutral — not taking part or giving assistance in a dispute or war between others: a neutral nation during World War II.
  • quaternities — Plural form of quaternity.
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