12-letter words containing so
- oesophagitis — Alternative spelling of esophagitis.
- oligopsonies — Plural form of oligopsony.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- on soundings — in waters less than 100 fathoms in depth
- opsonisation — Alternative form of opsonization.
- opsonization — to increase the susceptibility of (bacteria) to ingestion by phagocytes.
- optoisolator — A device that transmits a signal optically between two isolated electronic circuits.
- or something — You use something in expressions such as 'or something' and 'or something like that' to indicate that you are referring to something similar to what you have just mentioned but you are not being exact.
- oral society — a society that has not developed literacy
- out of sorts — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- pantisocracy — a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal
- parasol pine — stone pine (def 1).
- parkinsonian — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, related to, or resembling Parkinson's disease.
- parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
- peau de soie — a soft, satin-weave cloth of silk or rayon, grainy and having a dull luster, used to make dresses, coats, trimmings, etc.
- personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalized — customized
- personalness — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- philosophies — the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
- philosophise — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
- philosophism — spurious or deceitful philosophy.
- philosophist — a person who affects philosophical knowledge
- philosophize — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
- physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
- physostomous — having the mouth and air bladder connected by an air duct.
- piano lesson — music class in playing the piano
- plasmosomata — a kind of nucleoli
- pogson ratio — the brightness ratio of two celestial objects that differ by one magnitude. On the Pogson scale a difference of 5 magnitudes is defined as a difference of 100 in the intensities of two stars; therefore a difference of 1 magnitude is equal to the fifth root of 100, i.e. 2.512
- point source — a source of radiation sufficiently distant compared to its length and width that it can be considered as a point.
- poison gland — a gland in some fish and amphibians that secretes venomous material
- poison sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus vernix (or Toxicodendron vernix), of swampy areas of the eastern U.S., having pinnate leaves and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to it.
- policeperson — a member of a police force.
- polyisoprene — a thermoplastic polymer, (C 5 H 8) n , the major constituent of natural rubber and also obtained synthetically.
- polyribosome — polysome.
- popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
- port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
- potting soil — enriched topsoil for potting plants, especially house plants.
- prairie soil — a soil that forms in subhumid, temperate regions with tall grass as native vegetation.
- pre-socratic — of or relating to the philosophers or philosophical systems of the period before the Socratic period.
- prednisolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid, C 2 1 H 2 8 O 5 , used in various forms to treat inflammation and allergies and in the treatment of acute leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and lymphomas.
- prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
- preprocessor — a program that performs some type of processing, as organization of data or preliminary computation, in advance of another program that will perform most of the processing.
- prison fever — typhus.
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
- professorate — the office or the period of service of a professor.
- professoress — a female professor
- professorial — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- promissorily — (in law) in a promissory way