12-letter words containing t, i, p, l
- play it cozy — to act cautiously so as to avoid risk
- 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
- plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
- ploughwright — a person who makes ploughs
- plug casting — bait casting in which a plug is used as the lure.
- pluriliteral — (in Hebrew grammar) containing more than three letters in the root
- poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
- poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
- polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
- polarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
- 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
- polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polyhistoric — relating to a polyhistor
- polymyositis — a disorder characterized by the inflammation of multiple muscles
- 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.
- polyrhythmic — the simultaneous occurrence of sharply contrasting rhythms within a composition.
- polystichous — arranged in rows or series.
- polysynaptic — having or involving more than one synapse.
- 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.
- polytonality — the use of more than one key at the same time.
- polytriglyph — (in classical architecture) an intercolumniation of at least four triglyphs.
- poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
- populational — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
- porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
- porismatical — porismatic
- 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.
- porthole die — a die having several openings for the extrusion of separate parts of an object later formed by the welding or fusing together of these parts.
- porto amelia — former name of Pemba (def 2).
- positionally — in terms of position, from a positional point of view
- positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
- post-glacial — after a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
- post-looping — post-synchronization.