12-letter words containing i, m, p, r, o, s
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- promissorily — (in law) in a promissory way
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
- propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
- prosyllogism — a syllogism the conclusion of which is used as a premise of another syllogism; any of the syllogisms included in a polysyllogism except the last.
- protoplasmic — Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
- protosemitic — the hypothetical parent language of the Semitic group of languages
- proximities' — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
- psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
- pteridosperm — seed fern.
- reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
- receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
- redemptorist — a member of the “Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer,” founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori in 1732.
- reimpression — a second or repeated impression.
- repositorium — a place for the storage of valuables, as in an ancient Roman temple or a church.
- respirometer — an instrument for measuring the extent of respiratory movement.
- respirometry — the branch of medical science dealing with the measurement and analysis of respiration.
- rheomorphism — the liquefaction of rock, which results in its flowing and intruding into surrounding rocks
- rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
- saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
- scissor jump — a type of jump involving a scissor-like movement of the legs
- seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- semi-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
- semiprecious — (of a stone) having commercial value as a gem but not classified as precious, as the amethyst or garnet.
- semitropical — subtropical.
- serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
- simple group — a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity.
- skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
- somers point — a town in SE New Jersey.
- sophomorical — characteristic of a sophomore
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
- spermophytic — able to produce seed
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- streptomycin — an antibiotic, C 2 1 H 3 9 N 7 O 1 2 , produced by a soil actinomycete, Streptomyces griseus, and used in medicine in the form of its white, water-soluble sulfate salt, chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- superimposed — (of a stream or drainage system) having a course not adjusted to the structure of the rocks presently undergoing erosion but determined rather by a prior erosion cycle or by formerly overlying rocks or sediments.
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- suspensorium — a part that supports or suspends, esp the mandibular suspensorium, which suspends the lower jaw from the skull
- thermosiphon — an arrangement of siphon tubes that enables water in a heating apparatus to circulate by means of convection.
- transumption — an act of metaphorical transference
- unimprisoned — not confined in a prison
- williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.