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12-letter words containing c, o, e, m, p

  • photothermic — pertaining to the thermal effects of light.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • picrocarmine — a red powder containing carmine and picric acid which is used in staining processes
  • picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
  • pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • plumulaceous — having the texture of down.
  • pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
  • pneumococcal — a bacterium, Diplococcus pneumoniae, causing lobar pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, as pericarditis and meningitis.
  • pneumococcus — a bacterium, Diplococcus pneumoniae, causing lobar pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, as pericarditis and meningitis.
  • pneumocystis — any protozoan of the genus Pneumocystis, esp P. carinii, which is a cause of pneumonia in people whose immune defences have been lowered by drugs or a disease
  • pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
  • pocket money — money for small, current expenses.
  • pocket mouse — any of numerous burrowing rodents, especially of the genus Perognathus, chiefly inhabiting arid regions of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having fur-lined cheek pouches and a long tail.
  • pole compass — (formerly) a ship's compass elevated on a wooden pole to isolate it as much as possible from local magnetism.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • polycythemic — relating to polycythemia
  • ponzi scheme — a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.
  • postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
  • postischemic — occurring after or due to ischaemia
  • power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
  • pre-ceremony — the formal activities conducted on some solemn or important public or state occasion: the coronation ceremony.
  • precisionism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
  • primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
  • pro-american — in favour of or supporting America, its people, culture, etc
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • prochein ami — next friend.
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
  • protosemitic — the hypothetical parent language of the Semitic group of languages
  • pseudocoelom — the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
  • pseudoscheme — A translator from Scheme to Common Lisp by Jonathan Rees <[email protected]>. Version 2.8. It conforms to all of R3RS except call/cc and requires Common Lisp. Runs on Lucid, Symbolics CL, VAX Lisp, Explorer CL. Mailing list: [email protected]
  • psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
  • psychrometer — an instrument for determining atmospheric humidity by the reading of two thermometers, the bulb of one being kept moist and ventilated.
  • psychrometry — the employment of the psychrometer.
  • public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
  • pumice stone — abrasive stone used for exfoliating
  • pumice-stone — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
  • pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
  • pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
  • receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
  • recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • rhamphotheca — the horny covering of a bird's bill.
  • rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
  • scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
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