12-Letter Words Containing L

Peaceful

Tranquillity

Having a pearly luster or gloss.

Trivial offenses

Minor indiscretions

Half-heartedly called police about son's minor indiscretions

In a pedantic manner.

Pedestal

""Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.""

Pejorative

Pelargonium

The act of punishing.

Least expensive music-maker (wordplay)

Small fipple flute

Simple wind instrument

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

Pentathlete

Pentlandite

""PERAMBULATE To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.""

Perambulate

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

""PERCEPTION The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.""

Perceptive

Perceptual

Perchlorate

Percipient

Percolation

Percussive

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.

In a perfective manner.

In a perfidious manner.

Adjective (-al)

PERILOUS dangerous

From time to time.

Peripheral

Peritoneal

Perjurious

The quality or state of being permeable.

In a permissive manner.

Pernicious

""PERORATION The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.""

Perplexity

With great tenacity.

In a tenacious manner

Incessantly; resolutely

PERSONALISE

Makes for you an espresso, one left to stir

Personalism

Personalist

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

Personalize

Personalty

PERSPECTIVE Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

Convincingly repulsive, say, after makeover

Causing infectious diseases

A little snipe playing up causing trouble

Well-earned revenue (wordplay)

Of or pertaining to petrology.

Petrologist

Non-PC study of drugs (wordplay)

The science or study of drugs

The science or study of drugstore drugs

""Time the study of the effects of climate on animal and plant life. ; phenologist, phaenologist, ; phenologic, phaenologic, phenological, phaenological,""

Male - no, males - with exterior that's friendly to a remarkable extent

PHENOTYPIC

""An adrenergic blocking agent, C 17 H 19 N 3 O, used especially in the diagnosis and treatment of pheochromocytoma.""

Top of plant needs shade - uphill struggle for 24 21

Unfaithful types

Philip and Elizabeth repeatedly meeting southern Lotharios

Flirts

The royal couple in grand flirtation

Are Phillip and Erin good at flirting (wordplay)

I phone darling, exuding love, naughtily flirting

Love of mankind

Promotion of others' welfare

The donating of money to good causes

They gather impressions from many lands

Some collectors

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

Philhellene

Of or pertaining to philhellenism.

Lack of culture

Indifference to culture and the arts

Smug conventionality

One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

Your florist (wordplay)

Popular houseplant

London pride variety including first house plant

PHILOLOGIC Of or pertaining to philology.

They interpret literary texts

They think better of The Wise Men perhaps

Philosophy

Reason about deep and fundamental issues

Speculate superficially

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

Phlebology

Phlebotomy

One who practiced phlebotomy.

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

In a phonetic manner.

Of or pertaining to phonology.

Phonologist

English word

""Any of various phosphorus-containing lipids, such as lecithin and cephalin, that are composed mainly of fatty acids, a phosphate group, and a simple organic molecule. Also called phosphatide .""

Study of light's effect on living organisms

Photoflash

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study and identification of geological phenomena using aerial photographs

PHOTOLYZE

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

""(Chemistry) a polymeric material that is sensitive to light: used in printing plates, microfilms, etc.""

""Capable of producing a voltage when exposed to radiant energy, especially light.""

English word

Phrenology

Old scientist treated English troop

Worried girls to phone head examiner

Skull expert.

The branch of botany that deals with algae. Also called algology .

Phycologist

Phylactery

PHYLETIC pertaining to {phylesis=n}

Phylloclade

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

Phyllotaxy

""Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism.""

Physicalism

Physicalist

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

Physiology

One who is versed in the science of physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.

Phytoalexin

Phytosterol

PICKEREL a freshwater fish

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

PICTORIALISE pictorial

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

Pigeonholer

Categorizing, perhaps unfairly

Assigning to a specific place

""PILGRIMAGE The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.""

Pilocarpine

English word

English word

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

Pitchblende

PITIABLE {pitiful=adj}

PITILESS without pity

Placeholder

PLACEKICKER placekick

Placekick

""The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals. as, the placentation of mammals.""

Placidness

Copying letter from Greece will limit delay occurring

""PLAGIARIST One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.""

Plagiarizer

PLAGIARIZE To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

Plagioclase

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

Iowa farmer's get-up (wordplay)

Iowa farmer's get-up?

Police outfit pins the local criminal

They show the sky from atrium constructed in aircraft

Any of innumerable small bodies thought to have orbited the sun during the formation of the planets.

Planisphere

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

PLANLESS without a plan

""A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.""

Plantigrade

Plasmalemma

Plasminogen

Plasmodesma

Plasmogamy

PLASMOLYZE

Sheet used as covering on indoor walls

Material for inner walls

Lining for interior walls

Plasterwork

Plasticity

Plasticizer

PLASTICIZE

English word

Platemaking

""PLATITUDE The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.""

In a Platonic manner.

Platyrrhine

Something worthy of praise.

Playwriting

Sweetness from Pats leanness

Polite, agreeable, remarks

Agreeable remarks

Small talk on amazing sale in food stores

PLEASING the act of pleasing

Devoid of pleasure.

Plebeianism

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

Plecopteran

Pleinairism

Pleinairist

Pleiotropy

Pleochroism

""The property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism. dimorphism and trimorphism.""

""The infective larva of some tapeworms, characterized by its solid elongated body.""

Pliability

Pliantness

PLOTLESS {planless=adj}

Pluckiness

Plushiness

Plutocracy

""The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1. Pneumatics, 1.""

""Pl. pneumococci (-k k s , -k k ) A nonmotile, gram-positive bacterium (Streptococcus pneumoniae) that is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia, associated with meningitis and other infectious diseases.""

Podophyllin

Podophyllum

POETICAL a {poet=n}

""An organism, such as a fish or reptile, having a body temperature that varies with the temperature of its surroundings; an ectotherm.""

Pointillism

Pointillist

Person associated with (-ist)

Polarimeter

An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarization of polarized light passing through an optical structure or sample.

Polariscope

""Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations. as, polariscopic observations.""

""The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity.""

POLAROGRAPH

POLEMICIZE

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

Poliovirus

Politeness

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

POLITICISE

POLITICIZE