12-letter words containing n, m, p
- opendocument — (file format, standard) (ODF, ISO/IEC 26300, OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) An XML file format for office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations, databases and word processing. OpenDocument was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium. It is based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite. OpenDocument is an open standard, i.e. freely available and implementable. Compare OOXML.
- opening time — You can refer to the time that a shop, bank, library, or bar opens for business as its opening time.
- operationism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
- optimisation — Alternative spelling of optimization.
- optimization — The design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense.
- option money — the price paid for buying an option
- ornithomorph — the artistic representation of a bird
- 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.
- outplacement — counseling and assistance in finding a new job, provided by a company for an employee who has been or is about to be dismissed.
- overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palm islands — a group of three man-made island systems under construction just off the shore in Dubai, each in the shape of a palm tree
- palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
- paludamentum — a cloak worn by officials and military officers of ancient Rome, especially during wartime.
- pama-nyungan — a family of Australian aboriginal languages, the most widespread within the Australian group of languages.
- pamperedness — the state of being pampered
- pan-american — of, relating to, or representing all the countries or people of North, Central, and South America.
- pan-asianism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance of all the Asian nations.
- pan-islamism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
- panama canal — a canal extending SE from the Atlantic to the Pacific across the Isthmus of Panama. 40 miles (64 km) long.
- panchen lama — Tashi Lama.
- panchromatic — sensitive to all visible colors, as a photographic film.
- panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
- panhellenium — an institution founded by the Roman Emperor Hadrian idealizing Greece's Classical history
- panpharmacon — a remedy or panacea
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- panspermatic — relating to panspermia
- pappenheimer — a heavy rapier of the 17th century, having a swept guard with two perforated plates.
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
- paralipomena — Chronicles.
- paramagnetic — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- paramorphine — thebaine.
- paranormally — in a paranormal manner; by paranormal means
- parathormone — a hormone secreted by the parathyroids, important in the control of the calcium-phosphorus balance of the body
- parchmentize — to treat (paper or the like) so that it resembles parchment.
- parent metal — the metal of components that are being welded by a molten filler metal
- parking ramp — apron (def 6).
- parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
- parmigianino — (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) 1503–40, Italian painter.
- 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.
- parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- part company — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- part payment — partial payment; a payment that is not the full price
- party animal — person who frequents drinking parties
- patternmaker — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
- payment bond — See under contract bond.
- payment card — A payment card is a plastic card which you use like a credit card, but which takes the money directly from your bank account.
- payment date — the date on which a payment (of a debt, bill, etc) is used to be paid
- pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)