12-letter words containing n, m, p
- drum printer — a line printer that uses a rotating drum with raised characters, against which the paper is pressed.
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- economy pack — a large pack of goods that is cheaper than a normal-sized pack
- egyptian mau — a breed of medium-sized cat with a spotted coat of medium length
- ekman spiral — a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
- emancipating — Present participle of emancipate.
- emancipation — The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- emancipatrix — A woman, girl, or any other entity treated as female who emancipates; a female emancipator.
- empassionate — intensely affected
- emplacements — Plural form of emplacement.
- empressement — Animated eagerness or friendliness; effusion.
- empty-handed — carrying nothing
- empty-nester — a married person whose children have grown up and left home
- enamel paint — a type of paint that has a very hard and shiny finish once it is dry
- enantiomorph — Each of two crystalline or other geometric forms that are mirror images of each other.
- encipherment — The act or process of enciphering; encryption.
- encompasseth — Archaic third-person singular form of encompass.
- encompassing — Present participle of encompass.
- endomorphism — changes in a cooling body of igneous rock brought about by assimilation of fragments of, or chemical reaction with, the surrounding country rock
- enophthalmos — The posterior displacement of the eyeball within the orbit due to changes in the volume of the orbit (bone) relative to its contents (the eyeball and orbital fat), or loss of function of the orbitalis muscle.
- entomophobia — Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
- entry permit — customs
- ephemeridian — relating to ephemera
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- epiphenomena — Plural form of epiphenomenon.
- epithalamion — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
- epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
- euphoniumist — Someone who plays the euphonium.
- examinership — the office or function of an examiner
- exemplifying — Present participle of exemplify.
- expansionism — The policy of territorial or economic expansion.
- experimental — (of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized.
- experimented — Simple past tense and past participle of experiment.
- experimenter — A person who experiments.
- expromission — the act of (a creditor) accepting a new debtor as being responsible for the debt of another person
- extracampine — (psychiatry, of hallucination) Beyond the possible sensory field.
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- folsom point — a flint point characteristic of the Folsom tradition, typically leaf-shaped and fluted, with small basal extensions, and used on a projectile, as a spear, for hunting game.
- footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- frank murphy — Frank, 1890–1949, U.S. statesman and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1940–49.
- free company — a band of free companions.
- freshmanship — the state of being a freshman; the period during which a student is considered to be a freshman
- gamesmanship — the use of methods, especially in a sports contest, that are dubious or seemingly improper but not strictly illegal.
- gelande jump — jump made in downhill skiing
- gene mapping — any of a number of methods used to construct a model of the linear sequence of genes of a particular chromosome.