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12-letter words containing m, l, i, s, p

  • oversimplify — make too simple
  • palimpsestic — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
  • palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • palm islands — a group of three man-made island systems under construction just off the shore in Dubai, each in the shape of a palm tree
  • palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
  • pan-islamism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
  • panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
  • pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
  • parochialism — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
  • pearl primus — Pearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
  • periselenium — the closest point of the orbit of a spacecraft to the moon
  • permissively — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
  • 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
  • persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
  • phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • philistinism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
  • phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
  • philomelides — a king of Lesbos who wrestled and killed every opponent until he himself was defeated by Odysseus.
  • philosophism — spurious or deceitful philosophy.
  • phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
  • 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.
  • pictorialism — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • 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.
  • plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
  • plastic foam — expanded plastic.
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • 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.
  • plumbaginous — containing graphite.
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • pollyannaism — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
  • polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
  • polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
  • polymorphism — the state or condition of being polymorphous.
  • polymyositis — a disorder characterized by the inflammation of multiple muscles
  • polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
  • polyribosome — polysome.
  • porismatical — porismatic
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
  • postliminium — postliminy.
  • postliminous — occurring after; subsequent
  • postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
  • poststimulus — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following the administering of a stimulus
  • potamologist — a specialist in potamology
  • practicalism — devotion to practical matters.
  • preeclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
  • primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
  • primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
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