12-letter words containing n, i, m, p
- photodynamic — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- photomachine — a machine that prints copies of digital photographs
- phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
- physiognomic — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- piatra neamt — a city in NE Romania, in Moldavia.
- pick 'n' mix — Pick 'n' mix is used to describe a way of getting a collection of things together by choosing a number of different ones.
- pick and mix — a selection of sweets from which the customer can choose, paid for by weight
- picrocarmine — a red powder containing carmine and picric acid which is used in staining processes
- pigmentation — coloration, especially of the skin.
- piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
- 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
- planetesimal — one of the small celestial bodies that, according to one theory (planetesimal hypothesis) were fused together to form the planets of the solar system.
- plum pudding — a rich steamed or boiled pudding containing raisins, currants, citron, spices, etc.
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
- 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.
- point system — Printing. a system for grading the sizes of type bodies, leads, etc., that employs the point as a unit of measurement. Compare point (def 48a).
- 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.
- pollyannaism — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
- polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
- pompeian red — a dull, grayish red.
- 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.
- postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- postliminium — postliminy.
- postliminous — occurring after; subsequent
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- postmidnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- 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
- pre-eminence — the state or character of being preeminent.
- preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
- 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.
- predetermine — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
- predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
- preeminently — eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing: He is preeminent in his profession.
- preformation — previous formation.
- premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
- premarketing — before the development of a market
- premigration — occurring before migration
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
- premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
- prenominally — before a noun
- presenteeism — the practice of coming to work despite illness, injury, anxiety, etc., often resulting in reduced productivity.
- presentiment — a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil; foreboding.