12-letter words containing e, n, c, a, m
- parchmentize — to treat (paper or the like) so that it resembles parchment.
- payment card — A payment card is a plastic card which you use like a credit card, but which takes the money directly from your bank account.
- 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
- 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).
- phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- photomachine — a machine that prints copies of digital photographs
- picrocarmine — a red powder containing carmine and picric acid which is used in staining processes
- pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- plenum cable — (hardware) Cable that can be (legally) installed in the plenum (the space between a ceiling and the floor above it). Such cable is (usually) teflon-coated so that it will not give off toxic fumes when burned. In some parts of the world such cable is required by law.
- pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
- pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
- pneumococcal — a bacterium, Diplococcus pneumoniae, causing lobar pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, as pericarditis and meningitis.
- predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
- primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
- pro-american — in favour of or supporting America, its people, culture, etc
- prochein ami — next friend.
- pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
- quantum cell — (electronics, computing) (Or "quantum dot cell") A structure comprising four quantum dots arranged in a square, with two diagonally opposed dots containing electron charges. One diagonal containing charges is arbitrarily defined as representing a value of '1', the other as '0'. In a five-dot cell, the fifth, central dot contains no charge. See also: quantum cell wire, quantum-dot cellular automata.
- race meeting — A race meeting is an occasion when a series of horse races are held at the same place, often during a period of several days.
- race norming — the process of statistically adjusting the scores of minority job applicants on job-qualification tests by rating each test-taker's score against the results of others in his or her racial or ethnic group.
- racemization — the conversion of an optically active substance into an optically inactive mixture of equal amounts of the dextrorotatory and levorotatory forms.
- racing homer — a kind of homing pigeon used for racing
- raman effect — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
- re-enactment — the act of enacting.
- readmittance — the act or process of admitting someone or something again
- reattachment — connecting or fastening again
- recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- rejectamenta — things that have been thrown away as worthless
- remembrancer — a person who reminds another of something.
- remonstrance — an act or instance of remonstrating.
- return match — sport: second game between same teams
- ring machine — a Linotype used primarily for making corrections.
- 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.
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- roman a clef — a novel that represents historical events and characters under the guise of fiction.
- roman candle — a firework consisting of a tube that sends out a shower of sparks and a succession of balls of fire.
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
- sacramentals — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacramentary — a sacramentarian
- san clemente — a town in S California.
- sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
- scampishness — the quality of being scampish
- scene master — (on a switchboard) a master switch that controls several lighting circuits.
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants