12-letter words containing c, r, m, e, a
- permaculture — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
- phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- pharmaceutic — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- pharmacolite — hydrous calcium arsenate, 2CaO⋅As 2 O 5 ⋅5H 2 O, formed by natural alteration of mineral deposits containing arsenopyrite and arsenical ores of cobalt and silver.
- pharmacopeia — a book published usually under the jurisdiction of the government and containing a list of drugs, their formulas, methods for making medicinal preparations, requirements and tests for their strength and purity, and other related information.
- picrocarmine — a red powder containing carmine and picric acid which is used in staining processes
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
- predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
- preeclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
- premedicated — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
- primary care — medical care by a physician, or other health-care professional, who is the patient's first contact with the health-care system and who may recommend a specialist if necessary.
- primary cell — a cell designed to produce electric current through an electrochemical reaction that is not efficiently reversible, so that the cell when discharged cannot be efficiently recharged by an electric current.
- 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
- pulp chamber — the crown portion of the pulp cavity.
- pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
- pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
- race meeting — A race meeting is an occasion when a series of horse races are held at the same place, often during a period of several days.
- race norming — the process of statistically adjusting the scores of minority job applicants on job-qualification tests by rating each test-taker's score against the results of others in his or her racial or ethnic group.
- racemic acid — an isomeric modification of tartaric acid that is sometimes found in the juice of grapes in conjunction with the common dextrorotatory form and is optically inactive but can be separated into the two usual isomeric forms, dextrorotatory and levorotatory.
- racemization — the conversion of an optically active substance into an optically inactive mixture of equal amounts of the dextrorotatory and levorotatory forms.
- rachiotomies — Plural form of rachiotomy.
- racing homer — a kind of homing pigeon used for racing
- radiomimetic — (of drugs) producing effects similar to those produced by X-rays
- raman effect — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
- ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
- re-enactment — the act of enacting.
- reaccumulate — to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up: to accumulate wealth.
- readmittance — the act or process of admitting someone or something again
- reattachment — connecting or fastening again
- receptaculum — a vessel, receptacle or container
- recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- reduced mass — a quantity obtained when one particle is moving about another, larger particle that is also moving, equivalent to the mass of the smaller particle, were the larger particle not moving, and equal to the quotient of the product of the two masses divided by their sum.
- reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
- refugee camp — a camp for sheltering and protecting people who have fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution
- rejectamenta — things that have been thrown away as worthless
- remembrancer — a person who reminds another of something.
- remonstrance — an act or instance of remonstrating.
- return match — sport: second game between same teams
- reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
- rhamphotheca — the horny covering of a bird's bill.
- ring machine — a Linotype used primarily for making corrections.