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12-letter words containing c, s, i, m

  • pinchcommons — a person who is frugal with food
  • plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
  • plastic foam — expanded plastic.
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • 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
  • poison sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus vernix (or Toxicodendron vernix), of swampy areas of the eastern U.S., having pinnate leaves and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to it.
  • 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.
  • polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
  • 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.
  • porismatical — porismatic
  • postischemic — occurring after or due to ischaemia
  • postorgasmic — of or relating to the period after an orgasm
  • postromantic — of or relating to the period after Romanticism
  • postsphygmic — of or relating to the pulse.
  • practicalism — devotion to practical matters.
  • pragmaticism — the pragmatist philosophy of C. S. Peirce, chiefly a theory of meaning: so called by him to distinguish it from the pragmatism of William James.
  • pragmaticist — a follower of the doctrine of pragmatism
  • 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.
  • preeclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
  • primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
  • primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
  • 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.
  • protosemitic — the hypothetical parent language of the Semitic group of languages
  • psammophytic — relating to psammophytes
  • psychologism — emphasis upon psychological factors in the development of a theory, as in history or philosophy.
  • psychomachia — conflict of the soul
  • psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
  • psychonomics — the study of the individual mind in relation to its environment
  • psychoticism — the state of being psychotic
  • 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.
  • quiesce time — (jargon)   The length of time taken to quiesce a system (to render it inactive), or the length of time between periods of inactivity.
  • rachiotomies — Plural form of rachiotomy.
  • ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
  • rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rambus, inc. — (company)   The company which designed Rambus DRAM. Address: Mountain View, CA., USA.
  • 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.
  • recommission — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
  • reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
  • reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
  • reminiscence — the act or process of recalling past experiences, events, etc.
  • rhythm stick — a small wooden stick used, especially by a child, as a simple percussive instrument in learning the rudiments of musical rhythm.
  • rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
  • room service — the serving of food, drinks, etc., to a guest in his or her room, as at a hotel.
  • rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
  • sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
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