12-letter words containing lat
- optoisolator — A device that transmits a signal optically between two isolated electronic circuits.
- oscillations — Plural form of oscillation.
- over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- overpopulate — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
- palatability — acceptable or agreeable to the palate or taste; savory: palatable food.
- palatalizing — to articulate (a consonant other than a normal palatal) as a palatal or with relatively more contact between the blade of the tongue and the hard palate, as in certain pronunciations of the l- sound in million.
- palatography — a technique for observing the position of the tongue in relation to the palate during articulation, especially by placing powder or dye on the palate and then noting the area from which it has been removed by the contact of the tongue with the palate during the production of a speech sound.
- paralation c — Paralation embedded in C. Under development.
- particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
- patrilateral — related through the father.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pedunculated — having a peduncle.
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
- plat du jour — the special or featured dish of the day on a restaurant menu.
- platanaceous — relating to the family Platanaceae
- plate armour — armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century
- plate girder — an iron or steel beam built up from plates and shapes welded or riveted together, usually including a plate or plates for a web, four angle irons forming two flanges, and a pair of plates to reinforce the flanges.
- plate warmer — a device for warming plates
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- platform car — a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.
- platitudinal — platitudinous.
- platonically — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- populational — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- postillation — the writing or preaching of postils
- preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
- prelatically — in the manner of a prelate
- preovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- punctulation — the state of being punctulate
- purlin plate — (in a curb roof) a purlin at the top of a lower slope supporting the ends of the upper rafters at the curb.
- quartz plate — a carefully cut quartz crystal that is piezoelectrically active. Compare crystal (def 10).
- re-calculate — to calculate again, especially for the purpose of finding an error or confirming a previous computation.
- reaccumulate — to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up: to accumulate wealth.
- rearticulate — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
- reassimilate — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- recapitulate — to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
- recirculated — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
- reflationary — economy: relating to reflation
- regulation t — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by brokers and dealers to customers for the purchase of securities on margin.
- regulation u — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by a bank for the purchase of listed securities.
- relatability — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- relationally — in a relational manner
- relationless — having no family relations
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- relativeness — the state or fact of being relative.
- relativistic — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.