12-letter words containing n, a, p, y
- money player — a person who performs best under pressure, especially in a competitive situation.
- monosynaptic — having or relating to a sole synapse
- morphosyntax — the study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic or grammatical units.
- municipality — a city, town, or other district possessing corporate existence and usually its own local government.
- nappy valley — a residential area that is regarded as suitable for families with young children
- narcotherapy — an infrequently used method of treating mental disorders by intravenous injection of barbiturates.
- naughty step — a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour
- nephanalysis — a map or chart showing the distribution of types and amounts of clouds and precipitation at a given time.
- nephrography — Diagnostic imaging of the kidneys.
- neuronopathy — A form of polyneuropathy caused by destruction of neurons.
- neurotypical — relating to or showing typical neurological behavior and development: She has one dyslexic and one neurotypical child.
- new egyptian — the Egyptian language, c. 1600-700 b.c.
- night prayer — the last of the seven canonical hours; compline
- nonphysician — a person who is not a physician
- nonrepayable — that does not need to be or cannot be repaid
- nontyphoidal — of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- norway maple — a European maple, Acer platanoides, having bright-green leaves, grown as a shade tree in the U.S.
- nosey parker — a persistently nosy, prying person; busybody.
- note payable — A note payable is a written legal obligation to repay an amount of borrowed money at a particular future date.
- nymphomaniac — a woman who has abnormally excessive and uncontrollable sexual desire.
- oceanography — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
- odontography — a treatise regarding the teeth
- omphalomancy — Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have.
- one-act play — a short play consisting of only one act
- onychophagia — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
- onychophoran — any small, predatory, caterpillarlike animal of the phylum Onychophora, common in tropical forests, having stubby legs ending in pincers.
- opalescently — In an opalescent manner.
- open primary — a direct primary election in which voters need not meet a test of party membership.
- opinionately — in a conceited or vain manner
- organography — the description or visual depiction of organs.
- oropharynxes — Plural form of oropharynx.
- oyster plant — salsify.
- painted lady — a butterfly, Vanessa cardui, having brownish-black and orange wings and hind wings each with four eyespots, the larvae of which feed on thistles.
- palaeobotany — the study of fossil plants
- paleontology — the science of the forms of life existing in former geologic periods, as represented by their fossils.
- palynologist — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
- pama-nyungan — a family of Australian aboriginal languages, the most widespread within the Australian group of languages.
- pancytopenia — an abnormally low level of all blood cells
- panic buying — shopping to stockpile for emergency
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- pantaloonery — foolery; humorous entertainment
- pantisocracy — a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- para rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
- paracyanogen — a polymer of cyanogen
- parahydrogen — the form of molecular hydrogen in which the nuclei of the two hydrogen atoms contained in the molecule have spins in opposite directions.
- paralysingly — in a manner that paralyses
- paralyzation — to affect with paralysis.
- paranoically — in a paranoiac manner