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12-letter words containing e, a, p, r, o, m

  • paralipomena — Chronicles.
  • paramorphine — thebaine.
  • parathormone — a hormone secreted by the parathyroids, important in the control of the calcium-phosphorus balance of the body
  • parlour game — A parlour game is a game that is played indoors by families or at parties, for example a guessing game.
  • parma violet — a variety of the sweet violet, Viola odorata, that is the source of an essential oil used in perfumery.
  • paroemiology — the study of proverbs
  • peacock worm — feather-duster worm.
  • pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
  • pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
  • period drama — a drama set in a particular historical period
  • periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
  • peristomatic — surrounding a leaf's stoma or stomata
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
  • 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
  • plate armour — armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
  • pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • pompeian red — a dull, grayish red.
  • portal frame — a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway
  • porto amelia — former name of Pemba (def 2).
  • postal meter — a postal franking machine
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • power hammer — a type of mechanical hammer operated by compressed air and used by blacksmiths, metalworkers, and manufacturers
  • power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
  • power-stream — to stream and watch (multiple videos, episodes of a TV show, etc.) in one sitting or over a short period of time.
  • praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
  • preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
  • preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • preformation — previous formation.
  • preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
  • preformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
  • premigration — occurring before migration
  • premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
  • prenominally — before a noun
  • prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
  • primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
  • pro-american — in favour of or supporting America, its people, culture, etc
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