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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
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