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12-letter words containing m, o, r, n, i

  • promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
  • protactinium — a radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Pa; atomic number: 91.
  • prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • provitamin a — carotene.
  • pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
  • puerto limon — Limón (def 2).
  • pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
  • pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
  • pyromaniacal — a compulsion to set things on fire.
  • quadrinomial — consisting of four terms.
  • quadrominium — a building consisting of four individually owned apartments or living units.
  • quasi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
  • querimonious — Complaining; querulous. (from 17th c.).
  • race norming — the process of statistically adjusting the scores of minority job applicants on job-qualification tests by rating each test-taker's score against the results of others in his or her racial or ethnic group.
  • racemization — the conversion of an optically active substance into an optically inactive mixture of equal amounts of the dextrorotatory and levorotatory forms.
  • rachmaninoff — Sergei Wassilievitch [sur-gey vuh-seel-yuh-vich;; Russian syir-gyey vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /sɜrˈgeɪ vəˈsil yə vɪtʃ;; Russian syɪrˈgyeɪ vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1943, Russian pianist and composer.
  • racing homer — a kind of homing pigeon used for racing
  • radioelement — a radioactive element.
  • rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • ramification — the act or process of ramifying.
  • re-admission — the act of allowing to enter; entrance granted by permission, by provision or existence of pecuniary means, or by the removal of obstacles: the admission of aliens into a country.
  • re-animation — to restore to life; resuscitate.
  • reading room — a room set aside for reading, as in a library or club.
  • reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
  • receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
  • recommending — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
  • recommission — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
  • recommitment — to commit again.
  • redemptioner — an emigrant from Europe to America who obtained passage by becoming an indentured servant for a specified period of time.
  • reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
  • reestimation — judgment or opinion: In my estimation the boy is guilty.
  • reformatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • reimpression — a second or repeated impression.
  • remote login — (networking)   A client-server program and protocol that provides an interactivel command line interface to a remote computer, using a protocol over a computer network, simulating a locally attached terminal.
  • remotivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
  • remuneration — the act of remunerating.
  • renomination — an act or instance of nominating, especially to office: The floor is open for nomination of candidates for the presidency.
  • resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.
  • retromingent — urinating backward because of bodily configuration: The lion is a retromingent animal.
  • rigid motion — any transformation, as a translation or rotation, of a set such that the distance between points is preserved.
  • risorgimento — the period of or the movement for the liberation and unification of Italy 1750–1870.
  • rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
  • rolling mill — a mill where ingots, slabs, sheets, etc., of usually hot metal are passed between rolls to give them a certain thickness or cross-sectional form.
  • roman empire — the lands and peoples subject to the authority of ancient Rome.
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • romantically — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
  • rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
  • rose diamond — a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top
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