12-letter words containing t, a, p, i, r
- postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- 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.
- postorgasmic — of or relating to the period after an orgasm
- postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
- postromantic — of or relating to the period after Romanticism
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
- potato crisp — potato chip.
- 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.
- powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- practicalism — devotion to practical matters.
- practicalist — devotion to practical matters.
- practicality — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- practitioner — a person engaged in the practice of a profession, occupation, etc.: a medical practitioner.
- pragmaticism — the pragmatist philosophy of C. S. Peirce, chiefly a theory of meaning: so called by him to distinguish it from the pragmatism of William James.
- pragmaticist — a follower of the doctrine of pragmatism
- praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
- pralltriller — inverted mordent.
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- pre-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- 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-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- pre-socratic — of or relating to the philosophers or philosophical systems of the period before the Socratic period.
- pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
- precipitable — capable of being precipitated.
- precipitance — the quality or state of being precipitant.
- precipitancy — the quality or state of being precipitant.
- precipitated — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- precipitator — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
- predesignate — to designate beforehand.
- predestinate — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
- preestablish — to establish beforehand.
- prefabricate — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
- preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
- prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
- prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
- preformation — previous formation.
- preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
- prelatically — in the manner of a prelate
- premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy