12-letter words containing ace
- lobeliaceous — belonging to the plant family Lobeliaceae.
- loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.
- major tenace — the ace and queen of a suit held by one player.
- marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
- mechlin lace — a fine bobbin lace with raised cord, originally made in Mechlin.
- megacephalic — macrocephalic.
- memory trace — engram.
- metacercaria — the encysted larva of a trematode, usually found in or on an aquatic intermediate host.
- metric space — a space with a metric defined on it.
- minor tenace — the king and jack of a suit held by one player.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- multifaceted — Having many facets.
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- off the pace — behind the leader; out of first place
- off-the-face — (of a woman's hat) made without a brim.
- office space — part of a building for business use
- oil in place — The oil in place is the amount of crude oil which is estimated to be in a reservoir.
- orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
- out of place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- 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.
- oxyacetylene — noting or pertaining to a mixture of oxygen and acetylene: an oxyacetylene torch.
- palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
- pandanaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Pandanaceae, an Old World tropical family of monocotyledonous plants including the screw pines
- paracenteses — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- paracentesis — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- peace accord — an official agreement to come to peace or end conflict
- peace treaty — an agreement to come to peace and end conflict (between governments, countries, etc)
- peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
- peacefulness — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peacekeeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
- pharmaceutic — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- picnic races — horse races for amateur riders held in rural areas
- place-holder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- placentation — Anatomy, Zoology. the formation of a placenta. the manner of placement or construction of a placenta.
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- placentology — the scientific study of the placenta
- platanaceous — relating to the family Platanaceae
- plumulaceous — having the texture of down.
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- produce race — a race for the offspring of parents identified or characterized at the time of nomination.
- pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
- quarry-faced — rock-faced.
- race meeting — A race meeting is an occasion when a series of horse races are held at the same place, often during a period of several days.
- race norming — the process of statistically adjusting the scores of minority job applicants on job-qualification tests by rating each test-taker's score against the results of others in his or her racial or ethnic group.
- race suicide — the extinction of a racial or ethnic population that tends to result when, through the unwillingness or forbearance of its members to have children, the birthrate falls below the death rate.
- racemic acid — an isomeric modification of tartaric acid that is sometimes found in the juice of grapes in conjunction with the common dextrorotatory form and is optically inactive but can be separated into the two usual isomeric forms, dextrorotatory and levorotatory.
- racemization — the conversion of an optically active substance into an optically inactive mixture of equal amounts of the dextrorotatory and levorotatory forms.
- ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
- road surface — the surface of the road, often asphalt
- roof terrace — a garden on the roof of a building