12-letter words containing i, m, p, r, o, s
- operationism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
- optometrists — Plural form of optometrist.
- orthotropism — Botany. orthotropic tendency or growth.
- over-promise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- overemphasis — excessive or undue emphasis.
- overoptimism — a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- overoptimist — someone who is too optimistic
- overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- oversimplify — make too simple
- palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- paramorphism — the process by which a paramorph is formed.
- paraphimosis — inability to retract the penis into the prepuce as a result of narrowing of the prepuce
- parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
- parochialism — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- paronomastic — the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
- parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- pedomorphism — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
- periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
- perispomenon — (of a Greek word) bearing a circumflex accent on the last syllable
- peristomatic — surrounding a leaf's stoma or stomata
- permissioned — authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.
- petrochemist — someone who studies petrochemistry or works in the petrochemical industry
- photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- phototropism — phototropic tendency or growth.
- pictorialism — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
- pityrosporum — a genus of fungi that live on the skin, esp that of the scalp and face, present in conditions such as dandruff and dermatitis
- pleiotropism — the condition of a gene affecting more than one characteristic of the phenotype
- pleomorphism — existence of an organism in two or more distinct forms during the life cycle; polymorphism.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
- polymorphism — the state or condition of being polymorphous.
- polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
- polyribosome — polysome.
- porismatical — porismatic
- post-fordism — the idea that modern industrial production has moved away from mass production in huge factories, as pioneered by Henry Ford, towards specialized markets based on small flexible manufacturing units
- post-primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- postmistress — a woman in charge of a post office.
- postorgasmic — of or relating to the period after an orgasm
- postromantic — of or relating to the period after Romanticism
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject