12-letter words containing e, m, p, u, r
- pen computer — a computer, as a personal digital assistant, having pattern-recognition software enabling it to read handwritten text or drawings input on the screen by means of a stylus.
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- pericementum — periodontal membrane.
- perichaetium — a leafy cluster (bracts) around the base of the reproductive organs of some plants, predominantly mosses
- perinephrium — the capsule of connective tissue that envelops the kidney.
- periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
- periselenium — the closest point of the orbit of a spacecraft to the moon
- permaculture — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
- perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
- pharmaceutic — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- phone number — of individual, business
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
- piet-my-vrou — a cuckoo, Notococcyx solitarius, having a red breast
- plate armour — armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century
- pleomorphous — characterized by pleomorphism
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
- pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
- 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.
- power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
- 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.
- preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
- prejudgement — to judge beforehand.
- premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- 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 deal — a commercial transaction in which a special incentive or bonus is offered
- premium fuel — fuel or gasoline which has a higher octane value and is more expensive than standard fuel
- 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.
- premium-rate — (relating to telephone calls) charged at a higher than standard rate
- presumptuous — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
- 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.
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- pseudamphora — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
- pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
- pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
- puerto limon — Limón (def 2).
- puerto montt — a city in S Chile.
- pulp chamber — the crown portion of the pulp cavity.
- pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
- purple medic — a plant, Medicago sativa, of the legume family, usually having bluish-purple flowers, originating in the Near East and widely cultivated as a forage crop.
- ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
- re-equipment — the act of re-equipping
- reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
- receptaculum — a vessel, receptacle or container
- refugee camp — a camp for sheltering and protecting people who have fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution