12-letter words containing i, n, m, a, r
- outmigration — to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.
- overcramming — excessive cramming
- overdominant — excessively dominant
- overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
- 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.
- palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
- pan-american — of, relating to, or representing all the countries or people of North, Central, and South America.
- panchromatic — sensitive to all visible colors, as a photographic film.
- panspermatic — relating to panspermia
- pappenheimer — a heavy rapier of the 17th century, having a swept guard with two perforated plates.
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
- paralipomena — Chronicles.
- paramagnetic — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- paramorphine — thebaine.
- parchmentize — to treat (paper or the like) so that it resembles parchment.
- parking ramp — apron (def 6).
- parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
- parmigianino — (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) 1503–40, Italian painter.
- 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.
- party animal — person who frequents drinking parties
- pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
- 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
- persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
- 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).
- philharmonic — fond of or devoted to music; music-loving: used especially in the name of certain musical societies that sponsor symphony orchestras (Philharmonic Societies) and hence applied to their concerts (philharmonic concerts)
- phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
- piatra neamt — a city in NE Romania, in Moldavia.
- picrocarmine — a red powder containing carmine and picric acid which is used in staining processes
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- pompeian red — a dull, grayish red.
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- postromantic — of or relating to the period after Romanticism
- 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.
- predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
- preformation — previous formation.
- premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
- premarketing — before the development of a market
- premigration — occurring before migration
- 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.
- prenominally — before a noun
- primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
- primary gain — the removal of emotional conflict or relief of anxiety that is the immediate benefit of a defense mechanism or neurotic symptom.
- primogenital — relating to primogeniture
- pro-american — in favour of or supporting America, its people, culture, etc
- prochain ami — a next friend or next of kin
- prochein ami — next friend.
- proclamation — something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.