12-letter words containing m, o, n, p
- dipsomaniacs — Plural form of dipsomaniac.
- discomposing — Present participle of discompose.
- disportments — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
- domino paper — a marbleized or figured decorative paper, used for wallpaper, end papers, etc., printed from wood blocks and colored by hand.
- dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
- down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- economy pack — a large pack of goods that is cheaper than a normal-sized pack
- emancipation — The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- empassionate — intensely affected
- enantiomorph — Each of two crystalline or other geometric forms that are mirror images of each other.
- encompasseth — Archaic third-person singular form of encompass.
- encompassing — Present participle of encompass.
- endomorphism — changes in a cooling body of igneous rock brought about by assimilation of fragments of, or chemical reaction with, the surrounding country rock
- enophthalmos — The posterior displacement of the eyeball within the orbit due to changes in the volume of the orbit (bone) relative to its contents (the eyeball and orbital fat), or loss of function of the orbitalis muscle.
- entomophobia — Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
- epiphenomena — Plural form of epiphenomenon.
- epithalamion — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
- epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
- euphoniumist — Someone who plays the euphonium.
- expansionism — The policy of territorial or economic expansion.
- expromission — the act of (a creditor) accepting a new debtor as being responsible for the debt of another person
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- folsom point — a flint point characteristic of the Folsom tradition, typically leaf-shaped and fluted, with small basal extensions, and used on a projectile, as a spear, for hunting game.
- footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- free company — a band of free companions.
- germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
- germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
- gossipmonger — a person especially fond of or addicted to gossiping.
- gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- gymnosophist — one of a group of Jainist philosophers, existing from ancient times to c1000, characterized by refusal to wear clothes and the abandonment of caste marks; a member of the Digambara sect.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- halogen lamp — a gas-filled, high-intensity incandescent lamp having a tungsten filament and containing a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine, that vaporizes on heating and redeposits any evaporated tungsten particles back onto the filament: used especially in motion-picture projectors and automobile headlights.
- harmonograph — an instrument using a system of pendulums to produce geometric images
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- helmspersons — Plural form of helmsperson.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- hippodroming — (baseball) present participle of hippodrome; Staging games to suit gamblers, especially baseball.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- home posting — an appointment to a position within one's own country
- homo sapiens — (italics) the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong, characterized by a brain capacity averaging 1400 cc (85 cubic in.) and by dependence upon language and the creation and utilization of complex tools.
- hop hornbeam — any of several Eurasian and North American trees of the genus Ostrya, of the birch family, especially O. virginiana, bearing hoplike fruiting clusters.