12-letter words starting with p
- panification — the making of bread
- panning shot — pan3 (def 6).
- panpharmacon — a remedy or panacea
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- panspermatic — relating to panspermia
- pantaloonery — foolery; humorous entertainment
- pantechnicon — a furniture van; moving van.
- pantisocracy — a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal
- pantophagist — an omnivore
- pantophagous — characterized by pantophagy
- pantothenate — a widely occurring derivative of pantothenic acid
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- papadopoulos — George, 1919–99, Greek military leader and dictator (1967–74).
- papal nuncio — someone, such as an archbishop, who is a state's representative of or ambassador to the Pope
- papal states — the temporal domain of the popes in central Italy from 756 ad until the unification of Italy in 1870
- paper cutter — any device for cutting or trimming paper, typically a weighted, powered, or spring-hinged blade mounted on or over a ruled board or table on which many sheets of paper may be aligned for cutting at one time.
- paper napkin — a napkin or serviette made from tissue paper
- paper profit — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
- paper-cutter — any device for cutting or trimming paper, typically a weighted, powered, or spring-hinged blade mounted on or over a ruled board or table on which many sheets of paper may be aligned for cutting at one time.
- paper-pusher — a person who has a routine desk job.
- paper-weight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
- paperhanging — the activity or business of a paperhanger.
- papier colle — collage.
- papier-mache — a substance made of pulped paper or paper pulp mixed with glue and other materials or of layers of paper glued and pressed together, molded when moist to form various articles, and becoming hard and strong when dry.
- papistically — in the manner of the Roman Catholic Church or a Roman Catholic
- papoose-root — the blue cohosh. See under cohosh.
- pappenheimer — a heavy rapier of the 17th century, having a swept guard with two perforated plates.
- para rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
- para-medical — related to the medical profession in a secondary or supplementary capacity.
- paracenteses — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- paracentesis — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- paracyanogen — a polymer of cyanogen
- paracystitis — inflammation of the connective tissue around the urinary bladder.
- parade armor — ornamented armor worn only for ceremonial purposes.
- paradigmatic — of or relating to a paradigm.
- paradisaical — paradisiacal.
- paradisiacal — of, like, or befitting paradise.
- paradoxidian — relating to the genus Paradoxides
- paradoxology — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- paraesthesia — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
- paraesthetic — paresthesia.
- paraffin wax — paraffin in its solid state.
- paraffin-oil — a white or colorless, tasteless, odorless, water-insoluble, solid substance not easily acted upon by reagents, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons chiefly of the alkane series, obtained from crude petroleum: used in candles, for forming preservative coatings and seals, for waterproofing paper, etc.
- paraglossate — having paraglossae
- paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
- paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length