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12-letter words containing m, e, t, i

  • otitis media — inflammation of the middle ear, characterized by pain, dizziness, and impaired hearing.
  • out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
  • outcompeting — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
  • outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
  • ovariotomies — Plural form of ovariotomy.
  • overdominant — excessively dominant
  • overdramatic — of or relating to the drama.
  • overemphatic — excessive or undue emphasis.
  • overestimate — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
  • overmaturity — (of a tree or forest) the state of having ceased to grow or have commercial value
  • overmedicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
  • overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
  • overoptimism — a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
  • overoptimist — someone who is too optimistic
  • overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
  • overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
  • overtime pay — a higher than normal rate of pay, for work done as overtime
  • pacific time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
  • paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
  • paleoclimate — the climate of some former period of geologic time.
  • palimpsestic — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
  • panspermatic — relating to panspermia
  • paramagnetic — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
  • parameterise — to describe (a phenomenon, problem, curve, surface, etc.) by the use of parameters.
  • parameterize — to describe (a phenomenon, problem, curve, surface, etc.) by the use of parameters.
  • parasitaemia — the condition of having parasites in the blood
  • parchmentize — to treat (paper or the like) so that it resembles parchment.
  • parma violet — a variety of the sweet violet, Viola odorata, that is the source of an essential oil used in perfumery.
  • payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
  • pearl millet — a tall grass, Pennisetum americanum (or P. glaucum), cultivated in Africa, Asia, and the southern U.S. for its edible seeds and as a forage plant.
  • peremptorily — leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command.
  • performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
  • pericementum — periodontal membrane.
  • perichaetium — a leafy cluster (bracts) around the base of the reproductive organs of some plants, predominantly mosses
  • perimetrical — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
  • periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
  • 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
  • permeability — the property or state of being permeable.
  • permissivist — lenience toward or indulgence of a wide variety of social behavior.
  • permittivity — Electricity. the ratio of the flux density produced by an electric field in a given dielectric to the flux density produced by that field in a vacuum.
  • 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
  • petrochemist — someone who studies petrochemistry or works in the petrochemical industry
  • pharmaceutic — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
  • pharmacolite — hydrous calcium arsenate, 2CaO⋅As 2 O 5 ⋅5H 2 O, formed by natural alteration of mineral deposits containing arsenopyrite and arsenical ores of cobalt and silver.
  • 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.
  • phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
  • phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
  • phlebotomize — to subject to phlebotomy; bleed.
  • phonesthemic — (of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn- of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc.
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