12-Letter Words Starting P & Ending ON

• the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration

• the condition of having or giving polarity

• the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty

• the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined

• a treaty to cease hostilities

• actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency

• a large moving van (especially one used for moving furniture)

• using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy')

• the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities

• the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)

• a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites

• the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing

• a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor

• (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

• moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

• often grown as a houseplant

• 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