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12-letter words containing t, e, p, i

  • planetesimal — one of the small celestial bodies that, according to one theory (planetesimal hypothesis) were fused together to form the planets of the solar system.
  • plasteriness — the state of being made of or resembling plaster
  • plate girder — an iron or steel beam built up from plates and shapes welded or riveted together, usually including a plate or plates for a web, four angle irons forming two flanges, and a pair of plates to reinforce the flanges.
  • play it safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • plead guilty — defendant: declare guilt
  • pleased with — satisfied or content with
  • pleiotropism — the condition of a gene affecting more than one characteristic of the phenotype
  • plenipotence — the possession of total authority
  • plenipotency — the state of being plenipotent
  • pluriliteral — (in Hebrew grammar) containing more than three letters in the root
  • pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
  • pneumocystis — any protozoan of the genus Pneumocystis, esp P. carinii, which is a cause of pneumonia in people whose immune defences have been lowered by drugs or a disease
  • pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
  • pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
  • pocket knife — A pocket knife is a small knife with several blades which fold into the handle so that you can carry it around with you safely.
  • pocket piece — (in a window frame) a removable part of a pulley stile permitting access to sash weights.
  • pocket-sized — If you describe something as pocket-sized, you approve of it because it is small enough to fit in your pocket.
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • poète maudit — a poet who receives insufficient recognition in his or her own time
  • poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
  • poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
  • point defect — an imperfection in a crystal's lattice structure, either a missing atom or ion creating a vacancy in the lattice or an extra atom or ion between two normal lattice points creating an interstitial.
  • point source — a source of radiation sufficiently distant compared to its length and width that it can be considered as a point.
  • 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 system — Printing. a system for grading the sizes of type bodies, leads, etc., that employs the point as a unit of measurement. Compare point (def 48a).
  • point-device — completely; perfectly; exactly.
  • 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.
  • pointe-noire — a seaport in the S Republic of Congo.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • police court — an inferior court with summary jurisdiction for the trial of persons accused of any of certain minor offenses, and with power to examine those charged with more serious offenses and hold them for trial in a superior court or for a grand jury.
  • 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.
  • poliorcetics — the science of siegecraft
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • politicalize — to cause to be political; color with politics.
  • politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
  • polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • polycythemic — relating to polycythemia
  • polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
  • polypeptidic — relating to a polypeptide
  • polyphyletic — developed from more than one ancestral type, as a group of animals.
  • polytheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.
  • polythiazide — a substance, C 1 1 H 1 3 ClF 3 N 3 O 4 S 3 , used as a diuretic in the management of edema and hypertension.
  • pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
  • port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
  • port-etienne — former name of Nouadhibou.
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