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12-letter words containing m, o, y, e

  • pouilly-fume — a dry, white wine from the Loire Valley of France.
  • praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
  • pre-ceremony — the formal activities conducted on some solemn or important public or state occasion: the coronation ceremony.
  • prenominally — before a noun
  • pro-employer — a person or business that employs one or more people, especially for wages or salary: a fair employer.
  • property man — a member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
  • pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
  • pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
  • pseudonymous — bearing a false or fictitious name.
  • psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
  • psychrometer — an instrument for determining atmospheric humidity by the reading of two thermometers, the bulb of one being kept moist and ventilated.
  • psychrometry — the employment of the psychrometer.
  • public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
  • put money on — to place a bet on
  • pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
  • pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
  • pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
  • pyromorphite — a mineral, lead chlorophosphate, Pb 5 P 3 O 1 2 Cl, occurring in crystalline and massive forms, and of a green, yellow, or brown color; green lead ore: a minor ore of lead.
  • quota system — a system, originally determined by legislation in 1921, of limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year.
  • redeployment — to transfer (a unit, a person, supplies, etc.) from one theater of operations to another.
  • reemployment — an act or instance of employing someone or something.
  • reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
  • remuneratory — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
  • respirometry — the branch of medical science dealing with the measurement and analysis of respiration.
  • rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
  • rhythmometer — a type of metronome that gives or marks the beat or time in musical movements
  • rhythmopoeia — the art or process of composing, for example, music or poetry rhythmically
  • rhytidectomy — face-lift.
  • rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
  • romney marsh — one of an English breed of hardy sheep, having coarse, long wool.
  • run on empty — to be at a level of energy, creativity, etc. that is inadequate to sustain worthwhile activity or achievement
  • rusty memory — (storage, humour)   Mass-storage that uses iron-oxide-based magnetic media (especially magnetic tape and the pre-Winchester removable disk packs used in washing machines). Compare donuts.
  • schizomycete — any of numerous microorganisms of the subkingdom (or phylum) Schizophyta, kingdom Monera, comprising the bacteria.
  • seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
  • self-mockery — gentle humour at one's own expense
  • semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
  • semiautonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
  • sensitometry — the science of determining the sensitivity of photographic materials.
  • serotaxonomy — the study of the taxonomy of proteins using serological methods
  • servo system — a system using a servomechanism.
  • seymour cray — (person)   The founder of Cray Research and designer of several of their supercomputers. Cray has been a charismatic yet somewhat reclusive figure. He began Cray Research in Minnesota in 1972. In 1988, Cray moved his Cray-3 project to Colorado Springs. The next year, Cray Research spun it off to create Cray Computer. In 1989, Cray left Cray Research and started Cray Computer Corporation in Colorado Springs. His quest to build a faster computer using new-generation materials failed in 1995, and his bankruptcy cost half a billion dollars and more than 400 jobs. The company was unable to raise $20 million needed to finish the Cray-4 and filed for bankruptcy in March 1995. In the summer of 1996, Cray started a Colorado Springs-based company called SRC Computers, Inc. "We think we'll build computers, but who knows what kind or how," Cray said at the time. "We'll talk it over and see if we can come up with a plan." On 1996-09-22, aged 70, Cray broke his neck in a car accident. Surgery for massive head injuries and swelling of the brain leaving him in a critical and unstable condition.
  • shame on you — expressing disapproval
  • smotheringly — in a smothering manner
  • snowy mespil — a N American tree, Amelanchier Lamarckii, that produces small white flowers in spring
  • solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
  • sound system — equipment for playing music
  • soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
  • spectrometry — an optical device for measuring wavelengths, deviation of refracted rays, and angles between faces of a prism, especially an instrument (prism spectrometer) consisting of a slit through which light passes, a collimator, a prism that deviates the light, and a telescope through which the deviated light is viewed and examined.
  • spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
  • spermophytic — able to produce seed
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