12-letter words containing l, a, m, i, n
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- paralipomena — Chronicles.
- 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.
- phaeomelanin — a variety of melanin that gives rise to a red-coloured pigment
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phantom limb — a phenomenon characterized by the experience of pain, discomfort, or other sensation in the area of a missing limb or other body part, as a breast.
- phentolamine — an alpha blocker, C 1 7 H 1 9 N 3 O, used to reduce hypertensive states caused by a catecholamine excess, as in the treatment of pheochromocytoma.
- 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)
- phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
- pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- planetesimal — one of the small celestial bodies that, according to one theory (planetesimal hypothesis) were fused together to form the planets of the solar system.
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- pollyannaism — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
- 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.
- primogenital — relating to primogeniture
- proclamation — something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
- pyromaniacal — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- quadrinomial — consisting of four terms.
- qualmishness — The quality of being qualmish.
- quasi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- quitclaiming — Present participle of quitclaim.
- radioelement — a radioactive element.
- re-alignment — an adjustment to a line; arrangement in a straight line.
- reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.
- reinstalment — a further or new instalment
- remineralize — to add or restore minerals to
- romantically — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- ruminatingly — in a ruminating manner
- saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
- sal ammoniac — ammonium chloride.
- salamandrian — a salamander of the order Batrachia
- salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
- salamandroid — an amphibian of the genus Salamandra
- salesmanship — the technique of selling a product: They used a promotional gimmick that was the last word in salesmanship.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- saltationism — any of several theories holding that the evolution of species proceeds in major steps by the abrupt transformation of an ancestral species into a descendant species of a different type, rather than by the gradual accumulation of small changes.
- sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.