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12-letter words containing n, m, p

  • reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.
  • reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
  • receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
  • recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • redemptioner — an emigrant from Europe to America who obtained passage by becoming an indentured servant for a specified period of time.
  • redeployment — to transfer (a unit, a person, supplies, etc.) from one theater of operations to another.
  • reemployment — an act or instance of employing someone or something.
  • reimpression — a second or repeated impression.
  • reprimanding — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
  • road company — a theatrical group that tours cities and towns, usually performing a single play that is or has been a success in New York City.
  • roman empire — the lands and peoples subject to the authority of ancient Rome.
  • rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
  • run on empty — to be at a level of energy, creativity, etc. that is inadequate to sustain worthwhile activity or achievement
  • running jump — a jump made after running a short distance
  • salesmanship — the technique of selling a product: They used a promotional gimmick that was the last word in salesmanship.
  • salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
  • saltpetreman — a supplier of saltpetre
  • sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
  • scampishness — the quality of being scampish
  • scapulimancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
  • scapulomancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
  • schuman plan — the plan for establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, proposed by Robert Schuman, French political leader, in 1950.
  • self-priming — the powder or other material used to ignite a charge.
  • semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
  • seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
  • serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
  • serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
  • show jumping — sport: horseriding event
  • shrimp plant — a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • simple simon — a simpleton.
  • simple tense — a tense of verbs, in English and other languages, not involving the use of an auxiliary verb in addition to the main verb, as for example the past he drowned as opposed to the future he will drown
  • simpleminded — free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
  • simplon pass — a pass over the Lepontine Alps in S Switzerland, between Brig (Switzerland) and Iselle (Italy). Height: 2009 m (6590 ft)
  • skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
  • smarty-pants — smarty.
  • smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
  • snowy mespil — a N American tree, Amelanchier Lamarckii, that produces small white flowers in spring
  • somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
  • somers point — a town in SE New Jersey.
  • spanish main — (formerly) the mainland of America adjacent to the Caribbean Sea, especially the area between the mouth of the Orinoco River and the Isthmus of Panama.
  • spanish moss — an epiphytic plant, Tillandsia usneoides, of the southern U.S., having narrow, grayish leaves and growing in long festoons that drape the branches of trees.
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • spermatozoon — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
  • spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
  • sphygmophone — a device by which a pulse may be heard
  • spin machine — an organization or group of people acting together to present news or information in a way that creates a particular desired impression
  • splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
  • sporangiolum — a small sporangium
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