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12-letter words containing e, m, p, n

  • polyembryony — the production of more than one embryo from one egg.
  • pompeian red — a dull, grayish red.
  • 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.
  • port hueneme — a city in S California.
  • postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
  • postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • postponement — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
  • pre-ceremony — the formal activities conducted on some solemn or important public or state occasion: the coronation ceremony.
  • pre-emergent — not yet having emerged
  • pre-eminence — the state or character of being preeminent.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • predetermine — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • preemergence — occurring or applied before the emergence of a plant from the soil: preemergence herbicide.
  • preeminently — eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing: He is preeminent in his profession.
  • preformation — previous formation.
  • prejudgement — to judge beforehand.
  • premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
  • premarketing — before the development of a market
  • premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • premigration — occurring before migration
  • premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
  • 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
  • present arms — a position of salute in the manual of arms in which the rifle is held in both hands vertically in front of the body, with the muzzle upward and the trigger side forward.
  • presenteeism — the practice of coming to work despite illness, injury, anxiety, etc., often resulting in reduced productivity.
  • presentiment — a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil; foreboding.
  • pretreatment — to treat in advance or as part of a preliminary treatment: to pretreat wood before staining it.
  • primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
  • prime number — a positive integer that is not divisible without remainder by any integer except itself and 1, with 1 often excluded: The integers 2, 3, 5, and 7 are prime numbers.
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
  • primogenitor — a first parent or earliest ancestor: Adam and Eve are the primogenitors of the human race.
  • pro-american — in favour of or supporting America, its people, culture, etc
  • pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
  • prochein ami — next friend.
  • program note — A program note is an article written in a program for a play or concert that gives information about the performance or production.
  • prolegomenon — a preliminary discussion; introductory essay, as prefatory matter in a book; a prologue.
  • promethazine — a phenothiaxine derivative, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 2 S, used for the symptomatic relief of allergies and in the management of motion sickness.
  • property man — a member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
  • pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
  • pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
  • pseudonymous — bearing a false or fictitious name.
  • pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
  • pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
  • public enemy — a person or thing considered a danger or menace to the public, especially a wanted criminal widely sought by the F.B.I. and local police forces.
  • public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
  • puerto limon — Limón (def 2).
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