12-letter words containing n, m, p
- pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
- pneumatology — Theology. doctrine concerning the Holy Spirit. the belief in intermediary spirits between humans and God.
- pneumococcal — a bacterium, Diplococcus pneumoniae, causing lobar pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, as pericarditis and meningitis.
- pneumococcus — a bacterium, Diplococcus pneumoniae, causing lobar pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, as pericarditis and meningitis.
- 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
- pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
- pneumonology — the study of the respiratory system
- pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
- pocket money — money for small, current expenses.
- 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.
- polyembryony — the production of more than one embryo from one egg.
- pomona glass — an American art glass having one of its surfaces stained a pale amber color and the other surface etched.
- 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.
- port hueneme — a city in S California.
- postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- 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.
- postponement — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- 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-ceremony — the formal activities conducted on some solemn or important public or state occasion: the coronation ceremony.
- pre-emergent — not yet having emerged
- 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.
- preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
- 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.
- preemergence — occurring or applied before the emergence of a plant from the soil: preemergence herbicide.
- preeminently — eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing: He is preeminent in his profession.
- preformation — previous formation.
- prejudgement — to judge beforehand.
- premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
- premarketing — before the development of a market
- premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- 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
- present arms — a position of salute in the manual of arms in which the rifle is held in both hands vertically in front of the body, with the muzzle upward and the trigger side forward.