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12-letter words that end in an

  • pama-nyungan — a family of Australian aboriginal languages, the most widespread within the Australian group of languages.
  • pan and scan — a technique for changing the aspect ratio of a wide-screen film, usually by selecting the significant section of each film frame and cropping the sides, so that it can be transmitted in 4:3 aspect ratio.
  • pan-american — of, relating to, or representing all the countries or people of North, Central, and South America.
  • pan-european — of or relating to all or most of the countries of Europe.
  • paradoxidian — relating to the genus Paradoxides
  • parkinsonian — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, related to, or resembling Parkinson's disease.
  • pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • pediatrician — a physician who specializes in pediatrics.
  • pension plan — a systematic plan created and maintained, as by a corporation, to make regular payments of benefits to retired or disabled employees, either on a contributory or a noncontributory basis.
  • pentapolitan — of or pertaining to a pentapolis
  • petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
  • piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
  • pogonophoran — any member of the small phylum Pogonophora, slender tentacled animals having a tubelike outer covering, living on the deep ocean bottom.
  • postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
  • prelapsarian — Theology. occurring before the Fall: the prelapsarian innocence of Eden.
  • premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
  • presbyterian — pertaining to or based on the principle of ecclesiastical government by presbyters or presbyteries.
  • pro-american — in favour of or supporting America, its people, culture, etc
  • pro-european — of or relating to Europe or its inhabitants.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • procellarian — a bird species from the genus Procellaria
  • profile plan — a diagrammatic fore-and-aft elevation of the hull of a vessel, showing bow and buttock lines, stations, water lines, diagonals, decks, bulwarks, etc.
  • property man — a member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
  • proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
  • prototherian — belonging or pertaining to the group Prototheria, comprising the monotremes.
  • pterosaurian — a pterosaur
  • puerto rican — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
  • qinling shan — mountain range in NC China, extending across Gansu, Shaanxi, & Henan provinces: highest peak, c. 13,500 ft (4,115 m)
  • rapacki plan — the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany, proposed by Adam Rapacki (1909–70), the Polish foreign minister, in 1957
  • red valerian — a bushy valerian, Centranthus ruber, of Europe and southwestern Asia, having many fragrant red, crimson, or white flowers.
  • remainderman — a person who owns a remainder.
  • returned man — a member of the armed forces discharged in Canada after service overseas.
  • rhyncophoran — any of various beetles, including the weevils, having the head extended to form a snout
  • rolling plan — a plan which is designed to continue over a period of time and is subject to regular review and updating
  • rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
  • saint lucian — of or relating to Saint Lucia, an island state in the Caribbean
  • salamandrian — a salamander of the order Batrachia
  • saltpetreman — a supplier of saltpetre
  • salutatorian — (in some U.S. schools and colleges) the student ranking second highest in the graduating class, who delivers the salutatory at commencement.
  • san antonian — a city in S Texas: site of the Alamo.
  • sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
  • saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
  • scandinavian — of or relating to Scandinavia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • schuman plan — the plan for establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, proposed by Robert Schuman, French political leader, in 1950.
  • sea of japan — the sea between mainland Asia and Japan
  • seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
  • security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
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