12-letter words containing e, m, p, n
- empressement — Animated eagerness or friendliness; effusion.
- empty-handed — carrying nothing
- empty-nester — a married person whose children have grown up and left home
- enamel paint — a type of paint that has a very hard and shiny finish once it is dry
- enantiomorph — Each of two crystalline or other geometric forms that are mirror images of each other.
- encipherment — The act or process of enciphering; encryption.
- encompasseth — Archaic third-person singular form of encompass.
- encompassing — Present participle of encompass.
- endomorphism — changes in a cooling body of igneous rock brought about by assimilation of fragments of, or chemical reaction with, the surrounding country rock
- enophthalmos — The posterior displacement of the eyeball within the orbit due to changes in the volume of the orbit (bone) relative to its contents (the eyeball and orbital fat), or loss of function of the orbitalis muscle.
- entomophobia — Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
- entry permit — customs
- ephemeridian — relating to ephemera
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- epiphenomena — Plural form of epiphenomenon.
- epithalamion — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
- epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
- euphoniumist — Someone who plays the euphonium.
- examinership — the office or function of an examiner
- exemplifying — Present participle of exemplify.
- expansionism — The policy of territorial or economic expansion.
- experimental — (of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized.
- experimented — Simple past tense and past participle of experiment.
- experimenter — A person who experiments.
- expromission — the act of (a creditor) accepting a new debtor as being responsible for the debt of another person
- extracampine — (psychiatry, of hallucination) Beyond the possible sensory field.
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- free company — a band of free companions.
- freshmanship — the state of being a freshman; the period during which a student is considered to be a freshman
- gamesmanship — the use of methods, especially in a sports contest, that are dubious or seemingly improper but not strictly illegal.
- gelande jump — jump made in downhill skiing
- gene mapping — any of a number of methods used to construct a model of the linear sequence of genes of a particular chromosome.
- germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
- germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
- gossipmonger — a person especially fond of or addicted to gossiping.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- halogen lamp — a gas-filled, high-intensity incandescent lamp having a tungsten filament and containing a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine, that vaporizes on heating and redeposits any evaporated tungsten particles back onto the filament: used especially in motion-picture projectors and automobile headlights.
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- helmsmanship — the skill or function of a helmsman
- helmspersons — Plural form of helmsperson.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- home posting — an appointment to a position within one's own country
- homo sapiens — (italics) the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong, characterized by a brain capacity averaging 1400 cc (85 cubic in.) and by dependence upon language and the creation and utilization of complex tools.
- hop hornbeam — any of several Eurasian and North American trees of the genus Ostrya, of the birch family, especially O. virginiana, bearing hoplike fruiting clusters.
- hope diamond — a sapphire-blue Indian diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, weighing 44.5 carats and supposedly cut from a bigger diamond that was once part of the French crown jewels: now in the Smithsonian Institution.
- horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.