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

  • omnidistance — the distance between an omnirange station and a receiver.
  • omnipresence — present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
  • omnisciences — Plural form of omniscience.
  • omnisciently — having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.
  • onomastician — the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names.
  • onomatopoeic — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
  • orchidomania — an obsession with or passion for orchids
  • organic farm — a farm where organic methods are used for agriculture and animal husbandry
  • organic mode — (programming)   A term used by COCOMO to describe a project that is developed in a familiar, stable environment. The product is similar to previously developed products. Most people connected with the project have extensive experience in working with related systems and have a thorough understanding of the project. The project contains a minimum of innovative data processing architectures or algorithms. The product requires little innovation and is relatively small, rarely greater than 50,000 DSIs.
  • ornithomancy — Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc.
  • osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
  • other income — Other income is income that does not come from a company's main business, such as interest.
  • outcompeting — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
  • overcramming — excessive cramming
  • panchromatic — sensitive to all visible colors, as a photographic film.
  • parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
  • paronomastic — the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
  • pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
  • perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
  • phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • philharmonic — fond of or devoted to music; music-loving: used especially in the name of certain musical societies that sponsor symphony orchestras (Philharmonic Societies) and hence applied to their concerts (philharmonic concerts)
  • phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
  • phonesthemic — (of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn- of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc.
  • phonocamptic — possessing the property of reflecting sound or producing an echo
  • photodynamic — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • photomachine — a machine that prints copies of digital photographs
  • physiognomic — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
  • picrocarmine — a red powder containing carmine and picric acid which is used in staining processes
  • pinchcommons — a person who is frugal with food
  • pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
  • ping command — ping
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • pneumocystis — any protozoan of the genus Pneumocystis, esp P. carinii, which is a cause of pneumonia in people whose immune defences have been lowered by drugs or a disease
  • pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
  • poison sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus vernix (or Toxicodendron vernix), of swampy areas of the eastern U.S., having pinnate leaves and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to it.
  • policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
  • ponzi scheme — a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.
  • postromantic — of or relating to the period after Romanticism
  • potichomania — the art or process of printing or using paint to decorate the inside of a glass vessel
  • precisionism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • pro-american — in favour of or supporting America, its people, culture, etc
  • prochain ami — a next friend or next of kin
  • prochein ami — next friend.
  • proclamation — something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
  • protactinium — a radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Pa; atomic number: 91.
  • psychonomics — the study of the individual mind in relation to its environment
  • public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
  • pumice stone — abrasive stone used for exfoliating
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