15-letter words containing i, n, o, m
- palindromically — 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.
- panophthalmitis — the inflammation of all eye tissue
- panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
- pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
- parallel motion — a mechanism arranged so as to impart rectilinear motion to a rod connected to a lever that moves through an arc.
- parametrization — a parametric representation; the act of representing as or defining parameters
- passive smoking — the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.
- pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
- payment holiday — a break taken from paying ( a debt etc) back
- pentium ii xeon — (processor) The successor to Intel Corporation's Pentium II processor. The Xeon has the same P6 core as existing Pentium Pro/Pentium II units, but it supports a 100 MHz system bus and offers as much as 2 MB of level 2 cache.
- performing arts — dance, drama, music
- periodic motion — any motion that recurs in identical forms at equal intervals of time.
- peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
- phantom circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
- phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- phenomenologies — the study of phenomena.
- phenomenologist — the study of phenomena.
- phloem necrosis — a disease of the American elm caused by a mycoplasmalike organism, characterized by yellowing and necrosis of the foliage and yellowish-brown discoloration of the phloem.
- phonemicization — a grouping of phonemes
- phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
- phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
- photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
- photomechanical — noting or pertaining to any of various processes for printing from plates or surfaces prepared by the aid of photography.
- phrasemongering — the act of coining memorable phrases
- pincer movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
- plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
- platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
- platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
- pleuropneumonia — pleurisy conjoined with pneumonia.
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
- polynomial ring — the set of all polynomials in an indeterminate variable with coefficients that are elements of a given ring.
- polynomial-time — (complexity) (P) The set or property of problems which can be solved by a known polynomial-time algorithm.
- pontifical mass — (sometimes lowercase) Roman Catholic Church. a High Mass celebrated by a bishop or other prelate.
- pontine marshes — an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failed
- position isomer — any of two or more isomers that differ only in the position occupied by a substituent.
- positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- post-millennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
- post-retirement — the act of retiring, withdrawing, or leaving; the state of being retired.
- poststimulation — occurring after stimulation
- potting compost — Potting compost is soil that is specially prepared to help plants to grow, especially in containers.
- poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
- powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
- power macintosh — Power Mac
- pre-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- pre-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
- pre-romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
- preformationism — the belief in the theory of preformation
- preformationist — someone who advocates the theory of preformation
- preimplantation — relating to the period before implantation in the uterus