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12-letter words containing m, e, r, p

  • plate armour — armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century
  • plate warmer — a device for warming plates
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • pleiotropism — the condition of a gene affecting more than one characteristic of the phenotype
  • pleomorphism — existence of an organism in two or more distinct forms during the life cycle; polymorphism.
  • pleomorphous — characterized by pleomorphism
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
  • pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
  • poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
  • polyembryony — the production of more than one embryo from one egg.
  • polyribosome — polysome.
  • pommel horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, similar to a vaulting horse but having two graspable pommels on top, used by men for hand-supported balancing, rotating, and swinging maneuvers.
  • pompeian red — a dull, grayish red.
  • port hueneme — a city in S California.
  • port moresby — an independent republic in the W Pacific Ocean, comprising the E part of New Guinea and numerous near-lying islands, including the Bismarck Archipelago, the Admiralty Islands, the Trobriand Islands, and Bougainville and Buka in the Solomon Islands: a former Australian Trusteeship Territory; independent since 1975; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 178,260 sq. mi. (461,693 sq. km). Capital: Port Moresby.
  • portal frame — a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway
  • porto amelia — former name of Pemba (def 2).
  • postal meter — a postal franking machine
  • postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • postmistress — a woman in charge of a post office.
  • power hammer — a type of mechanical hammer operated by compressed air and used by blacksmiths, metalworkers, and manufacturers
  • power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
  • power-stream — to stream and watch (multiple videos, episodes of a TV show, etc.) in one sitting or over a short period of time.
  • 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.
  • pre-assembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
  • pre-ceremony — the formal activities conducted on some solemn or important public or state occasion: the coronation ceremony.
  • pre-emergent — not yet having emerged
  • pre-eminence — the state or character of being preeminent.
  • 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.
  • pre-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • pre-modelled — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
  • preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
  • preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
  • preamplifier — a device in the amplifier circuit of a radio or phonograph that increases the strength of a weak signal for detection and further amplification.
  • preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
  • precisionism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
  • predetermine — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • preeclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
  • preemergence — occurring or applied before the emergence of a plant from the soil: preemergence herbicide.
  • preeminently — eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing: He is preeminent in his profession.
  • preemptively — of or relating to preemption.
  • preformation — previous formation.
  • preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
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