12-letter words containing m, a, r, y, o
- pharmacology — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- pharyngotomy — surgical incision into the pharynx
- pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
- polypharmacy — the use of two or more drugs together, usually to treat a single condition or disease.
- post-primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
- praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
- prenominally — before a noun
- primary root — the first root produced by a germinating seed, developing from the radicle of the embryo.
- primordially — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- pro-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pro-monarchy — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- property man — a member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
- pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
- pyramidology — a belief system based on the supposed occult significance of the Egyptian pyramids
- pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
- pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
- pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
- pyromaniacal — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- rammohun roy — Rammohun [rah-moh-hon] /rɑˈmoʊ hɒn/ (Show IPA), 1774–1833, Indian religious leader: founder of Brahmo Samaj.
- remuneratory — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
- rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
- rhythmopoeia — the art or process of composing, for example, music or poetry rhythmically
- road company — a theatrical group that tours cities and towns, usually performing a single play that is or has been a success in New York City.
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- romantically — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- romney marsh — one of an English breed of hardy sheep, having coarse, long wool.
- royal family — the immediate family of a reigning monarch.
- saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
- satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
- seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- serotaxonomy — the study of the taxonomy of proteins using serological methods
- seymour cray — (person) The founder of Cray Research and designer of several of their supercomputers. Cray has been a charismatic yet somewhat reclusive figure. He began Cray Research in Minnesota in 1972. In 1988, Cray moved his Cray-3 project to Colorado Springs. The next year, Cray Research spun it off to create Cray Computer. In 1989, Cray left Cray Research and started Cray Computer Corporation in Colorado Springs. His quest to build a faster computer using new-generation materials failed in 1995, and his bankruptcy cost half a billion dollars and more than 400 jobs. The company was unable to raise $20 million needed to finish the Cray-4 and filed for bankruptcy in March 1995. In the summer of 1996, Cray started a Colorado Springs-based company called SRC Computers, Inc. "We think we'll build computers, but who knows what kind or how," Cray said at the time. "We'll talk it over and see if we can come up with a plan." On 1996-09-22, aged 70, Cray broke his neck in a car accident. Surgery for massive head injuries and swelling of the brain leaving him in a critical and unstable condition.
- sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- smoky quartz — a smoky-yellow to dark brown or black variety of quartz, used as a gem.
- solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
- spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
- sphygmograph — an instrument for recording the rapidity, strength, and uniformity of the arterial pulse.
- symbololatry — the worship of symbols
- syrtis major — an area in the northern hemisphere and near the equator of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- ternary form — a musical form in three sections, with the third usually an exact repetition of the first.
- tetrachotomy — the segmentation of something into four parts
- thermography — a technique for imitating an embossed appearance, as on business cards, stationery, or the like, by dusting printed areas with a powder that adheres only to the wet ink, and fusing the ink and powder to the paper by heat.
- thomas hardy — Godfrey Harold, 1877–1947, English mathematician.
- thoracectomy — excision of part or all of a rib.
- thoracostomy — the construction of an artificial opening through the chest wall, usually for the drainage of fluid or the release of an abnormal accumulation of air.