12-Letter Words Containing R

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

""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

The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception.

Perceptual

Perchlorate

Percipience

Percipient

Percolation

Percussive

""Medicine Passed, done, or effected through the skin.""

""PEREGRINATE To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.""

Peregrinate

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.

Perennation

Perestroika

In a perfective manner.

""PERFECTIVE Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

In a perfidious manner.

They help when one is in a tearing hurry

Operations that mean forceps are designed to clamp top of retina

""Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering I promise, thus performing the act of promising.""

English word

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

Inflammation of the pericardium.

Adjective (-al)

Pl. perichondria (-dr - ) The fibrous membrane of connective tissue covering the surface of cartilage except at the endings of joints.

PERILOUS dangerous

From time to time.

Study of punctuation marks (wordplay)

Field of study for a bridge maker (wordplay)

Opted to work with incisor, as part of dentistry

Specialized tooth care pro

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

Peripatetic

Peripheral

""PERIPHRASE The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.""

Peritoneal

PERITRICH

Perjurious

Permanency

A salt of permanganic acid.

The quality or state of being permeable.

In a permissive manner.

Pl. permittivities A measure of the ability of a material to resist the formation of an electric field within it.

Permutation

Pernicious

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

""PERPETRATE To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed. as, to perpetrate a foul deed.""

Commission for distribution of dog food

People carrying out harmful acts

Culprits

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

Perhaps how vets are paid out in a settlement shows endurance

Perpetuator

Perpetuity

""A crystalline compound, C 21 H 26 ClN 3 OS, used as a tranquilizer especially in the treatment of psychosis and to prevent or alleviate nausea and vomiting.""

Perplexity

Persecution

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

PERSEVERATE

Perseverate

Persistence

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

Personation

Personifier

Representing in human form

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

Perspective

Insight into and understanding of things

Astute intelligence

Shrewdness

Exotic Persia trip? No sweat

Broken tip? Repair's no sweat

Exercise and sport in air, running around causing this (wordplay)

""Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts. as, the perspiratory ducts.""

Convincingly repulsive, say, after makeover

Purposeful precautions I put in place

Pertinency

Disquiet

Contrary manner

Deviant quality

Exercise reading lines before head creates obstinacy

Perversity

""The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness of glass. as, the perviousness of glass.""

""The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.""

Well-earned revenue (wordplay)

Plural or third person singular

""The branch of petrology that deals with the origin of rocks, especially igneous rocks.""

""The branch of petrology that deals with the origin of rocks, especially igneous rocks.""

Geology ()

The description and classification of rocks.

Of or pertaining to petrology.

Petrologist

Pettifogger

Chicanery

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a tree or shrub that bears its perennating buds more than 25 cm above the level of the soil [from Greek phanero- visible + -phyte ]

Non-PC study of drugs (wordplay)

The science or study of drugs

The science or study of drugstore drugs

American dopes lie on the sheets in this

Stock of drugs

""A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence. C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence.""

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

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

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

Your florist (wordplay)

Popular houseplant

London pride variety including first house plant

They think better of The Wise Men perhaps

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

One versed or skilled in phonography.

""PHONOGRAPH A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.""

The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

Phosphorite

""Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.""

PHOSPHORUS The morning star; Phosphor.

""(Physics / General Physics) (of glass) changing colour with the intensity of incident light, used, for example, in sunglasses that darken as the sunlight becomes brighter""

Forgers take a picture of policeman on kind of rise

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

One way to reproduce a picture

Photograph

Snappy guy (wordplay)

One will put you in the picture

Job taking snaps

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

""A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced.""

Photometry

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

Photoperiod

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

The product of a photochemical reaction.

PHOTOREDUCE

Photoreduce

Photoresist

Photosetter

Photosphere

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

The tendency of growing plant organs to move or curve under the influence of light. In ordinary use the term is practically synonymous with heliotropism.heliotropism.

English word

Phrasemaker

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A deep-rooted plant that obtains water from a permanent ground supply or from the water table.

Phrenology

Old scientist treated English troop

Worried girls to phone head examiner

Skull expert.

Phylactery

Physiatrist

""PHYSIOCRAT One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.""

""The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography.""

Phytochrome

See plant hormone .

Phytosterol

PICKEREL a freshwater fish

""Pl. picornaviruses Any of a group of very small viruses, including the enteroviruses and the rhinoviruses, that infect animals and consist of RNA surrounded by an icosahedral protein shell.""

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

""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.""

Video communication device

PIECEWORKER piecework

Pigeonholer

""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

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

Pittosporum

Placeholder

PLACEKICKER placekick

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).

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

They show the sky from atrium constructed in aircraft

Planisphere

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

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

Plantigrade

Sheet used as covering on indoor walls

Material for inner walls

Lining for interior walls

Plasterwork

Plasticizer

Platyrrhine

Playwriting

Polite, agreeable, remarks

Agreeable remarks

Small talk on amazing sale in food stores

Devoid of pleasure.

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.""

Plutocracy

Pneumograph

Lung problem

""Any of various wormlike marine invertebrates of the phylum Pogonophora that grow in upright chitin tubes, usually at depths greater than 100 meters (330 feet), have tentacles attached to the head region, and lack a digestive system.""

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

Polarimeter