12-Letter Words Containing: A,N,O,O,P,R,R,T

• A chief legal clerk or notary in Roman Byzantium, and (hence) in Rome.

• One of the seven prelates, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.

• A registrar or chief clerk in various courts of law, especially (US) in a county court, (Australia) in certain state Supreme Courts.

• (Greek Orthodox Church) The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople.

• under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon

• a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell

• hormone synthesized and released into the blood stream by the parathyroid glands; regulates phosphorus and calcium in the body and functions in neuromuscular excitation and blood clotting

• formed or united into a whole

• organized and maintained as a legal corporation

• introduced into as a part of the whole

• a line of small holes for tearing at a particular place

• a hole made in something

• the act of punching a hole (especially a row of holes as for ease of separation)

• any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts

• someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another