12-letter words that end in l
- perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- perichaetial — denoting the leaves in mosses that surround the archegonia and, later, the base of the sporophyte
- perimetrical — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
- perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
- perorational — of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a peroration
- perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- pest control — rats, insects: extermination
- pestilential — producing or tending to produce pestilence.
- pestological — relating to pestology
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phonological — relating to study of speech sounds
- phosphatidyl — an atom or group of atoms containing one or more unpaired electrons derived from a phosphatide
- picture rail — bar from which pictures are hung
- pied wagtail — a British songbird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, with a black throat and back, long black tail, and white underparts and face: family Motacillidae (wagtails and pipits)
- pilot signal — a signal, as a flag or light, used to request a pilot.
- pitch chisel — a broad-edged chisel for cutting plane surfaces on stones.
- plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
- planet wheel — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
- planetesimal — one of the small celestial bodies that, according to one theory (planetesimal hypothesis) were fused together to form the planets of the solar system.
- planing hull — a hull that tends to rise from the water when under way so that no significant amount of water is displaced beyond a certain speed.
- platitudinal — platitudinous.
- play it cool — If you play it cool, you deliberately behave in a calm, unemotional way because you do not want people to know you are enthusiastic or angry about something.
- pluriliteral — (in Hebrew grammar) containing more than three letters in the root
- pneumococcal — a bacterium, Diplococcus pneumoniae, causing lobar pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, as pericarditis and meningitis.
- polyarchical — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- popocatepetl — a volcano in S central Mexico, SE of Mexico City. 17,887 feet (5450 meters).
- populational — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- porismatical — porismatic
- port of call — a port visited briefly by a ship, usually to take on or discharge passengers and cargo or to undergo repairs.
- possessional — of, relating to, or characterized by possession
- post-glacial — after a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
- postbiblical — occurring after the events written about in the Bible, occurring after the Bible was written
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- postcolonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
- postdiluvial — existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
- postdoctoral — of or relating to study or professional work undertaken after the receipt of a doctorate: postdoctoral courses.
- posthospital — following treatment in a hospital
- postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
- postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
- postneonatal — of, relating to, or occurring in the (four week) period after birth
- postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- postvaccinal — occurring after a vaccine
- potting soil — enriched topsoil for potting plants, especially house plants.
- power shovel — any self-propelled shovel for excavating earth, ore, or coal with a dipper that is powered by a diesel engine or electric motor. Compare shovel (def 2).
- prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
- prairie soil — a soil that forms in subhumid, temperate regions with tall grass as native vegetation.