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12-letter words containing t, o, l, p

  • photoanalyst — a person who analyzes and interprets photographs, especially a military specialist in aerial or satellite photography.
  • photobiology — the study of the effects of light on biological systems.
  • photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
  • photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
  • photogeology — the technique of interpreting geology from aerial photographs or compiling geologic maps therefrom.
  • photoglyphic — of or relating to photoglyphy
  • photolyzable — able to undergo photolysis
  • photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
  • photophilous — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
  • photopolymer — a polymer or plastic that undergoes a change in physical or chemical properties when exposed to light.
  • 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.
  • photovoltaic — of or relating to the photovoltaic effect.
  • phragmoplast — the cytoplasmic structure that forms at the equator of the spindle after the chromosomes have divided during the anaphase of plant mitosis, and that initiates cell division.
  • phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
  • phycologists — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
  • phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • physiologist — a specialist in physiology.
  • phytobiology — the branch of biology dealing with plants.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • pictorialism — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • pictorialist — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • pictorialize — to make pictorial; illustrate or represent with or as if with pictures.
  • picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
  • pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
  • pillow fight — a mock fight in which participants thump each other with pillows
  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • pilot engine — a locomotive sent on ahead of a railroad train to see that the way is clear and the track safe.
  • pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
  • pilot ladder — Jacob's ladder (def 2a).
  • pilot signal — a signal, as a flag or light, used to request a pilot.
  • piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
  • pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
  • placentation — Anatomy, Zoology. the formation of a placenta. the manner of placement or construction of a placenta.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • placentology — the scientific study of the placenta
  • plagiotropic — growing more or less divergent from the vertical.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plasma torch — an electrical device for converting a gas into a plasma, used for melting metal
  • plasmosomata — a kind of nucleoli
  • plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
  • plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • plastic foam — expanded plastic.
  • plastination — a technique for embalming bodies by impregnating whole organs with silicon polymers
  • plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
  • plat du jour — the special or featured dish of the day on a restaurant menu.
  • platanaceous — relating to the family Platanaceae
  • plate armour — armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • platform car — a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.
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