12-letter words containing pat
- patron saint — a saint regarded as the special guardian of a person, group, trade, country, etc.
- pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
- patternmaker — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
- psychopathic — of, relating to, or affected with psychopathy.
- purple patch — If someone, especially a sports player or team, goes through a purple patch, they are very successful or lucky for a period.
- reoccupation — a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation: Her occupation was dentistry.
- repatriation — to bring or send back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee, etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship.
- router patch — a plywood panel patch with parallel sides and rounded ends.
- seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
- shark patrol — a watch for sharks kept by an aircraft flying over beaches used by swimmers
- shore patrol — (often initial capital letters) members of an organization in the U.S. Navy having police duties similar to those performed by military police. Abbreviation: SP.
- spatiography — the study of the characteristics of space beyond the atmosphere, including the mapping of the movements of celestial bodies and the recording of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational effects, especially those likely to affect missiles and spacecraft.
- spatter cone — a low, steep-sided volcanic cone built up of droplets or blobs of lava erupted from a fissure or vent.
- spatter dash — roughcast (def 1).
- spatter-dash — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- standpattism — belief in or the practice of resisting or refusing to accept change, especially in politics.
- superpatriot — a person who is patriotic to an extreme.
- sympathizing — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- test pattern — a geometric design broadcast to receivers for testing the quality of transmission, often identifying the transmitting station and channel.
- tread a path — If you tread a particular path, you take a particular course of action or do something in a particular way.
- twitterpated — excited or overcome by romantic feelings; smitten.
- undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
- undissipated — indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute.
- unpatentable — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- unpatronized — having few or no patrons
- unsyncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- veneer patch — a patch made in one of the veneers of a sheet of plywood before layup.
- visuospatial — pertaining to perception of the spatial relationships among objects within the field of vision.
- walter pater — Walter Horatio, 1839–94, English critic, essayist, and novelist.