12-letter words containing m, o, r, p
- glamour puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- glamour-puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- gossipmonger — a person especially fond of or addicted to gossiping.
- gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
- gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- harmonograph — an instrument using a system of pendulums to produce geometric images
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- helmspersons — Plural form of helmsperson.
- hemimorphism — The condition of being hemimorphic.
- hemimorphite — a hydrous zinc silicate mineral, Zn 4 (OH) 2 Si 2 O 7 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in clear, colorless orthorhombic crystals; calamine: an ore of zinc.
- hemispheroid — half of a spheroid.
- heteromorphy — (biology) The state or quality of being heteromorphic; heteromorphism.
- high polymer — a polymer composed of a large number of monomers.
- hippodroming — (baseball) present participle of hippodrome; Staging games to suit gamblers, especially baseball.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- homeomorphic — similarity in crystalline form but not necessarily in chemical composition.
- homeotherapy — therapy for a disease by means of an agent that is similar to but not identical with the causative agent of the disease.
- homomorphism — Biology. correspondence in form or external appearance but not in type of structure or origin.
- 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.
- hopper frame — a window frame having one or more upper sashes hinged at the bottoms and opening inward.
- horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.
- hot-tempered — easily angered; short-tempered.
- hydromorphic — of or relating to soil having characteristics that are developed when there is excess water all or part of the time.
- hydrotropism — oriented growth in response to water.
- hylomorphism — the theory that every physical object is composed of two principles, an unchanging prime matter and a form deprived of actuality with every substantial change of the object.
- hymenopteran — hymenopterous.
- hymenopteron — hymenopteran.
- hyperchromic — (physics, chemistry) Describing an increase in the intensity of a spectral band due to a change in the molecular environment.
- hypercomplex — (mathematics) Describing any of several types of higher-dimensional numbers having some characteristics of complex numbers.
- hypermetropy — Dated form of hypermetropia.
- hyperosmolar — Of, pertaining to, or as a result of hyperosmolarity.
- hypersarcoma — a growth of proud or fungous flesh
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hypervolemia — (medicine) An abnormal increase in the volume of blood circulating through the body.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hyponatremia — (medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium (or salt) in blood plasma.
- hypsochromic — (physics) Of a change in the position of a spectral band, to a higher frequency.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- imidacloprid — The insecticide 1-(6-chloro-3-pyridylmethyl)-N-nitroimidazolidin-2-ylideneamine used to control fleas in domestic pets.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- imperatorial — Commanding; authoritative.
- imperception — lack of perception.
- imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- imperforated — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
- impersonally — In an impersonal manner.