12-letter words containing u, p, i
- preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
- preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
- prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
- preinduction — occurring before an induction
- prelingually — in a prelingual manner
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
- premium deal — a commercial transaction in which a special incentive or bonus is offered
- premium fuel — fuel or gasoline which has a higher octane value and is more expensive than standard fuel
- premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
- premium-rate — (relating to telephone calls) charged at a higher than standard rate
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- prerequisite — required beforehand: a prerequisite fund of knowledge.
- presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
- presque isle — a city in NE Maine.
- pressure ice — a general term for ice broken and deformed by stresses generated by wind, currents, or waves.
- presubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- prime number — a positive integer that is not divisible without remainder by any integer except itself and 1, with 1 often excluded: The integers 2, 3, 5, and 7 are prime numbers.
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- print unions — the trade unions within the printing industry
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- pro-equality — the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability: promoting equality of opportunity in the workplace.
- probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- proditorious — traitorous
- product line — all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- pronouncings — utterances, esp of an official or judgmental nature
- propaedeutic — pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction.
- propitiously — presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.
- proprio motu — by one's own volition; on one's own initiative.
- propugnation — defence
- prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- prostitution — the act or practice of engaging in sexual intercourse for money.
- protactinium — a radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Pa; atomic number: 91.
- prothalamium — prothalamion.
- protoduction — (jargon) A prototype that ends up in a production environment.
- prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- pruning hook — an implement with a hooked blade, used for pruning vines, branches, etc.
- prussic acid — weakly acidic extremely poisonous aqueous solution of hydrogen cyanide