12-Letter Words Containing P

The interbrain or thalamencephalon; sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon. dien. See Thalamencephalon.

""DILAPIDATE To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; said of a building.""

In expansion getting badly paid leads to ruin

Dimercaprol

Dipeptidase

Diphosphate

""Pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria.""

Diphtheroid

""To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.""

Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.

Diplodocus

Diplomatist

Those who drink and swim thus - lunatics!

Dipterocarp

The condition or office of a director; directorate.

*Part of many a magic act

Fading rum dip gains when fruit is added

Doctor finally is paged and pain unexpectedly is vanishing

Let down after daughter is given a job

Sad and let-down

Crestfallen as Democrat is elected

Disapproval

Disapprover

Builder providing spa is critical

Critical of detective's program going out of range

The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.

Relating to rules of conduct

Revulsive love photos in journal about correction

Discipliner

""DISCIPLINE The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.""

Phonograph Records

Phonograph Records

COMPOSING compose

The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation.

Discrepant

Dispensary

Exemption (from a rule)

Exemption (from the usual requirements)

Exemption (from usual requirement)

Girl with something to tell? Writes article in that medical book

Dispersive

Dispirited

Capable of being displaced.

Shift hell's location (wordplay)

Amount of movement

Measure of ship's size

Displeasure

Disportment

Disposition

Deprived of land/property

Bereft by Berryman

Deprived of property or land

Dispossess

One who dispossesses.

Debates ain't so stupid if appropriately organised

Sidney comes back to position nations to release new arguments

""Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper. as, a disputatious person or temper.""

Lacking public estimation

Not of decent character

Superb detail (anagram) -shady

In a disreputable manner.

Disrespect

Disruptive

Dissepiment

Dissipated

Dissipation

Immoderate.

Distemper

""Relating to, composed in, or consisting of twelve-tone music.""

DOPAMINE a form of dopa used to stimulate the heart

Ghostly double of a live person

Living person's double

Ghostly lookalike of a human

Doublespeak

A skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Duplication

Adjective (-ic)

Awfully patient with Girls Aloud? Very!

Painfully noisy in the grain division

Very loud and shrill

Part of roof subsided? Must be monitored

Listened secretly

Secretly overheard

Reproved apes (anagram)

Wiretapper, for example

Secret listener

Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; opposed to endoparasite. endoparasite.

A chemical compound or group that is attracted to electrons and tends to accept electrons.

""Pl. electrophori (- -r , - -r ) An apparatus for generating static electricity, consisting of a hard rubber disk that is given a negative charge by friction and a metal plate that is given a net positive charge by induction when in contact with the disk.""

Coat with metal

Put a thin coat on and choose to run to work, delayed

Charge-detecting instrument

Make off without damaging soccer team's leader's scientific apparatus

""ELECTROTYPE A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.""

One making a copy by coating a mould with deposited copper

Electrotype

In the form of an ellipse.

""EMANCIPATE To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country. (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.""

Freedom from parents (wordplay)

Lincoln's concern

Abe's decree

Emancipator

Embryophyte

EMPATHIC pertaining to {empathy=n}

Emperorship

They claim pal is suffering with stress

In a forceful way

Emplacement

The act of poisoning.

Empowerment

Demonstrative warmth or cordiality of manner; display of enthusiasm.

Each of two forms which are mirror images

Drunk saluted pecan in a nutshell

Encapsulate

Inflammation of the brain.

Turning practically senile with hepatic disorder

""(Linguistics) (tr) to convert (a message, document, etc.) from plain text into code or cipher; encode encipherer   n""

Comprehensively including

Book of knowledge

Reference work

Reference book

Comprehensive in terms of information

Endomorphy

""ENDOMORPH A crystal of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in quartz.""

""Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozo\'94n. ectoparasite. See Entozo\'94n.""

One of several biosynthetic intermediaries with a chemical residue containing O2

Enterpriser

Bold break-in using a jemmy (wordplay)

Adventurous and imaginative

Marked by ambition

Nice word for a speculator (wordplay)

Nice word for a risker of capital

One who is his/her own boss

ENTROPIC pertaining to {entropy=n}

Postmen even changing about fifty wrappings

An increase in the number of eosinophils in the blood.

EOSINOPHILE

Epeirogeny

Relating to epexegesis; explanatory; exegetical.

""EPHEMERAL Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower. as, an ephemeral flower.""

Fastidiousness in luxury

A nice umpire's unusual sort of philosophy

""The outermost layer of cuticle of an arthropod exoskeleton, composed mostly of wax.""

""Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.""

In an epidemic manner.

Study of the incidence and distribution of diseases

Epidiascope

""Pl. epididymides (-m -d z ) A long, narrow, convoluted tube, part of the spermatic duct system, that lies on the posterior aspect of each testicle, connecting it to the vas deferens.""

Plural or third person singular

""Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.""

Pl. epiglottises or epiglottides (-gl t -d z ) The thin elastic cartilaginous structure located at the root of the tongue that folds over the glottis to prevent food and liquid from entering the trachea during the act of swallowing.

Epiglottis

(Of saying) concise, witty

Like a short and witty saying

In the style of a concise and witty remark

""Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.""

Epigraphist

Resembling epilepsy.

Epinephrine

Pl. epiphenomena (-n ) A secondary phenomenon that results from and accompanies another: "Exploitation of one social class or ethnic group by another [is] an epiphenomenon of real differences in power between social groups" (Harper's).

EPIPHYTE a plant growing on another plant

Epiphytotic

Episcopacy

Episiotomy

Episodical

The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.

Epistolary

His work is seldom read (and never scanned)

Spenserian song adapted by Gustafson in wartime

Poem honoring newly- weds

Epithelioma

EPITHELIZE

Epoxidation

""Equal in force, power, effectiveness, or significance.""

Equipollent

PROBABLE something that is likely to occur

English word

Erysipelas

Escapology

I must get away!

One's bound to be entertaining

Entertainer is to go places when free

Espieglerie

Ethnic anthropologist

Relating to racial customs and characteristics

Eucalyptole

Fast-growing trees

Euphonical

Euphonious

EUPHORIC pertaining to {euphoria=n}

Evaporation

Very frustrating

Extremely annoying

Infuriating

Intense irritation

Open-air sex at assembly causes annoyance

Disgruntlement

Exculpation

Exemplify

Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of single amino acids from the end of a polypeptide chain.

""Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.""

Abnormal protrusion of the eyeball.

Same as Exophthalmia.Exophthalmia.

EXPANSION The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.

Policy of seeking economic or territorial growth

Doctrine of increasing the territory or influence of a country

Advocate of territorial enlargement

The Cloister and the Hearth author

Expatiation

EXPATRIATE To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

In atonement, treacherous rat gets exile

EXPATRIATE To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

Expectancy

Hopes for the future

Realistic hopes

Bank on answer to half the objections with hope and conjecture

EXPECTED expect

Expectorant

Anticipated accepting nothing traitor coughed up

Expectorate

Expediency

"". Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare.""

Expenditure

""EXPERIENCE Trial, as a test or experiment.""

""Derived from, or pertaining to, experience.""

Data-based - inexpert male (anagram)

Tentative mixture - for example nitre

Based on untested ideas

Experiment

Researcher's former name required, transiting border

Former wife edges around new one that's adventurous

Expertness

Rationales

Clarifying statements by old lover and pal travelling in Europe

Illuminating declarations by former pal moving places in Europe

( ks pl nt ) Explanted tissue.

Explication

The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness.

Unfair use

Taking advantage - optional exit (anagram)

""An act or deed, especially a brilliant or heroic one. See Synonyms at feat 1 .""

Exploration

Exportation

EXPOSITION The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.

""EXPOSTULATE To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; followed by with. with.""

Expostulate

""Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment.""

Expressive

""EXPRESSIVE Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. of; as, words expressive of his gratitude.""

""Taken out of the possession of another and transferred to one's own use often without permission; as, the expropriated land was developed into a public playground.as, the expropriated land was developed into a public playground.""

Expropriate

One who takes property for the public benefit

Expurgation