12-letter words containing m, a, t, r, s
- paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
- parameterise — to describe (a phenomenon, problem, curve, surface, etc.) by the use of parameters.
- parasitaemia — the condition of having parasites in the blood
- paronomastic — the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
- pastry cream — a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc
- patristicism — the study or science of the Fathers
- periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
- peristomatic — surrounding a leaf's stoma or stomata
- perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
- photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- phragmoplast — the cytoplasmic structure that forms at the equator of the spindle after the chromosomes have divided during the anaphase of plant mitosis, and that initiates cell division.
- pictorialism — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
- plasma torch — an electrical device for converting a gas into a plasma, used for melting metal
- porismatical — porismatic
- post-primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- postal meter — a postal franking machine
- postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- postorgasmic — of or relating to the period after an orgasm
- postromantic — of or relating to the period after Romanticism
- power-stream — to stream and watch (multiple videos, episodes of a TV show, etc.) in one sitting or over a short period of time.
- practicalism — devotion to practical matters.
- pragmaticism — the pragmatist philosophy of C. S. Peirce, chiefly a theory of meaning: so called by him to distinguish it from the pragmatism of William James.
- pragmaticist — a follower of the doctrine of pragmatism
- pre-estimate — to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately: to estimate the cost of a college education.
- premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- present arms — a position of salute in the manual of arms in which the rifle is held in both hands vertically in front of the body, with the muzzle upward and the trigger side forward.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- protoplasmic — Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
- pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
- quarrymaster — a person in charge of a quarry
- rachiotomies — Plural form of rachiotomy.
- ram sth home — If something rams home a message or a point, it makes it clear in a way that is very forceful and that people are likely to listen to.
- ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
- readjustment — an act of readjusting or the state of being readjusted.
- reassessment — the act of assessing; appraisal; evaluation.
- reassignment — something assigned, as a particular task or duty: She completed the assignment and went on to other jobs.
- reassimilate — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- reassortment — the act of assorting; distribution; classification.
- reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
- reassurement — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- reestimation — judgment or opinion: In my estimation the boy is guilty.
- reinstalment — a further or new instalment
- remnant sale — a sale of items that are unwanted or left over, sold at a lower price
- remonstrance — an act or instance of remonstrating.