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12-letter words containing a, p, u, n

  • number opera — an opera in which the arias, ensembles, recitatives, and other sections are clearly separated from one another.
  • number plate — vehicle's registration panel
  • nuptial mass — a special mass said at a wedding.
  • occupational — of or relating to an occupation, trade, or calling: occupational guidance.
  • olap council — (body, standard)   A body formed in early 1995 to work on a cross-product API for OLAP. After little success it was replaced by the Analytical Solutions Forum.
  • old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
  • open account — current account (def 1).
  • outer planet — any of the four planets with orbits outside the orbit of Mars, namely, the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
  • outplacement — counseling and assistance in finding a new job, provided by a company for an employee who has been or is about to be dismissed.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • pack a punch — be powerful
  • packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • paludamentum — a cloak worn by officials and military officers of ancient Rome, especially during wartime.
  • pama-nyungan — a family of Australian aboriginal languages, the most widespread within the Australian group of languages.
  • pan scrubber — a rough sponge, often made of steel wool, used for scrubbing saucepans, frying pans, etc
  • pan-european — of or relating to all or most of the countries of Europe.
  • pandanaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Pandanaceae, an Old World tropical family of monocotyledonous plants including the screw pines
  • panhellenium — an institution founded by the Roman Emperor Hadrian idealizing Greece's Classical history
  • panic button — an alarm button for use in an emergency, as to summon help.
  • panic buying — shopping to stockpile for emergency
  • 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.
  • pantophagous — characterized by pantophagy
  • papal nuncio — someone, such as an archbishop, who is a state's representative of or ambassador to the Pope
  • paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
  • paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • paralanguage — vocal features that accompany speech and contribute to communication but are not generally considered to be part of the language system, as vocal quality, loudness, and tempo: sometimes also including facial expressions and gestures.
  • paranthropus — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Paranthropus.
  • parent group — a large organization that owns a number of smaller separate commercial or industrial firms
  • paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
  • parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
  • passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
  • passive noun — a noun whose referent is the recipient of an action, as trainee, multiplicand.
  • pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pasture land — grassland used for grazing
  • pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
  • patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
  • patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
  • pauciloquent — using few words in speech or conversation
  • paul-boncour — Joseph [zhaw-zef] /ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1873–1972, French lawyer and statesman: premier 1932–33.
  • pause button — a button on a video or music player which can be pressed to temporarily stop the playing of the recording
  • paying guest — lodger
  • peacefulness — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • pearly queen — the female London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
  • pedunculated — having a peduncle.
  • pentateuchal — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
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