12-letter words containing i, n, p, e, r
- newspaperism — anything characteristic of newspapers, esp a word or phrase used only by journalists
- night person — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.
- night porter — A night porter is a person whose job is to be on duty at the main reception desk of a hotel throughout the night.
- night prayer — the last of the seven canonical hours; compline
- nobel prizes — any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and the promotion of peace; an annual award in economics was established in 1969 from private funds.
- nocireceptor — a receptor sensitive to pain
- non-complier — a person, group, etc., that complies.
- nondescripts — Plural form of nondescript.
- nonempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
- nonoperating — Not operating.
- nonoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- nonpasserine — (of a bird) not belonging or relating to the Passeriformes
- nonpurposive — lacking purpose
- nonspherical — not spherical
- norephedrine — The drug phenylpropanolamine.
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- oligophrenia — less than normal mental development.
- oligophrenic — less than normal mental development.
- omnipresence — present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
- on principle — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- open circuit — a discontinuous circuit through which no current can flow.
- open primary — a direct primary election in which voters need not meet a test of party membership.
- open trailer — any dog that barks or bays on the trail of its quarry.
- open verdict — law: coroner's jury finding
- opera singer — a professional singer of opera
- opera window — a narrow, fixed window on each side of the rear passenger compartment of an automobile.
- 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.
- opinionnaire — A form containing a list of statements, each of which the members of a selected group are asked to endorse or reject; the purpose being to gather information for a survey.
- oppressional — Exhibiting or relating to oppression.
- optic center — a point about ten percent above the exact center of a printed page or layout.
- organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
- ornithopters — Plural form of ornithopter.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- overcropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- overplotting — the provision of an excessively elaborate plot
- overpowering — that overpowers; overwhelming: an overpowering conviction of the truth.
- overripeness — the state of being too ripe
- overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- overspending — the act or an instance of spending in excess of one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated
- page printer — Computers. a high-speed, high-resolution printer that uses a light source, as a laser beam or electrically charged ions, to print a full page of text or graphics at a time.
- pain barrier — If you say that a sports player has gone through the pain barrier, you mean that he or she is continuing to make a great effort in spite of being injured or exhausted.
- paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- paint roller — a roller of absorbent material, mounted on a handle, that is rolled in a trough of paint and then rolled over a flat surface to be painted.
- pan-american — of, relating to, or representing all the countries or people of North, Central, and South America.
- pancreatitis — inflammation of the pancreas.
- panspermatic — relating to panspermia
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- paper napkin — a napkin or serviette made from tissue paper