12-letter words containing c, o, m, p, l
- policymaking — 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
- polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polypharmacy — the use of two or more drugs together, usually to treat a single condition or disease.
- polyrhythmic — the simultaneous occurrence of sharply contrasting rhythms within a composition.
- porismatical — porismatic
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- proclamation — something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
- protoplasmic — Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
- pseudocoelom — the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
- psychologism — emphasis upon psychological factors in the development of a theory, as in history or philosophy.
- public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
- pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
- pyromaniacal — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- scapulomancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- semitropical — subtropical.
- sophomorical — characteristic of a sophomore
- spasmophilic — of or noting spasmophilia.
- spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
- suboperculum — a bone in fishes behind the operculum or gill covering
- swamp locust — water locust.
- t lymphocyte — any of several closely related lymphocytes, developed in the thymus, that circulate in the blood and lymph and orchestrate the immune system's response to infected or malignant cells, either by lymphokine secretions or by direct contact: helper T cells recognize foreign antigen on the surfaces of other cells, then they stimulate B cells to produce antibody and signal killer T cells to destroy the antigen-displaying cells; subsequently suppressor T cells return the immune system to normal by inactivating the B cells and killer T cells.
- t-lymphocyte — T cell.
- telecomputer — teleprocessing.
- temper color — any of the colors appearing on the surface of clean, unoxidized steel heated in air, from pale yellow at the coolest to dark blue at the hottest: used as an approximate indication of temperature.
- the olympics — the Olympic Games
- thermocouple — a device that consists of the junction of two dissimilar metallic conductors, as copper and iron, in which an electromotive force is induced when the conductors are maintained at different temperatures, the force being related to the temperature difference: used to determine the temperature of a third substance by connecting it to the junction of the metals and measuring the electromotive force produced.
- thermophilic — growing best in a warm environment.
- ultracompact — extremely compact, esp of technology that is much smaller than a standard model
- uncomparable — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- uncompelling — tending to compel, as to force or push toward a course of action; overpowering: There were compelling reasons for their divorce.
- uncomplacent — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- uncomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- uncomposable — not fit for composition
- uncomputable — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- undiplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- unproclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.