12-letter words containing i, m, p, a
- empathically — In an empathic manner.
- emphatically — In a forceful way.
- empire state — state of New York
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
- 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.
- encompassing — Present participle of encompass.
- entomophobia — Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
- ephemerality — (uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
- 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.
- epidemically — In the manner of an epidemic.
- epigrammatic — Of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing.
- epiphenomena — Plural form of epiphenomenon.
- epirrhematic — relating to epirrhema
- episcopalism — the belief that a Church should be governed by bishops
- epithalamion — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
- epithalamium — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
- epitheliomas — Plural form of epithelioma.
- 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.
- examinership — the office or function of an examiner
- exophthalmia — (medicine) The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.
- exophthalmic — Having or characterized by protruding eyes.
- expansionism — The policy of territorial or economic expansion.
- expatriatism — The condition of being an expatriate, especially a deliberate one.
- experimental — (of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized.
- express mail — mail delivered quicker than normal mail
- extracampine — (psychiatry, of hallucination) Beyond the possible sensory field.
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- fairy shrimp — any member of the crustacean order Anostraca, characterized by an elongate trunk with more than 20 segments and the absence of a carapace, typically found swimming ventral side up in fresh water.
- fermat prime — (mathematics) A prime number of the form 2^2^n + 1. Any prime number of the form 2^n+1 must be a Fermat prime. Fermat conjectured in a letter to someone or other that all numbers 2^2^n+1 are prime, having noticed that this is true for n=0,1,2,3,4. No further Fermat primes are known; several have been factorised, and several more have been proved composite without finding explicit factorisations.
- film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- fissipalmate — (of birds) having the toes lobed or partially webbed.
- foam plastic — a kind of light cellular plastic made by creating bubbles of gas in the liquid material and solidifying it: often used as an insulator
- food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- 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.
- gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
- 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.
- gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
- grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
- gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
- great primer — an 18-point type of a size larger than Columbian, formerly used for Bibles.
- grimsel pass — an Alpine pass in S Switzerland. 7159 feet (2184 meters) high.
- haemophiliac — A person with haemophilia.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- hair implant — the insertion of synthetic fibers or human hair into the scalp to cover baldness.