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12-letter words containing n, o, m, i

  • pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
  • ping command — ping
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • plumbaginous — containing graphite.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • preformation — previous formation.
  • 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
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
  • primogenitor — a first parent or earliest ancestor: Adam and Eve are the primogenitors of the human race.
  • pro-american — in favour of or supporting America, its people, culture, etc
  • pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
  • prochain ami — a next friend or next of kin
  • prochein ami — next friend.
  • proclamation — something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
  • progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
  • prom monitor — (operating system)   a small program stored in PROM (or ROM), responsible for both loading the OS and providing some means to analyse OS crashes. It may also have some sort of user interface which can be used to examine and change the contents of memory, control the boot process (specifying arguments to the kernel, or changing where to look for the it), and so forth. The main difference between a PROM monitor and a bootstrap loader is that the PROM monitor regains control when the OS terminates. This may enable a wizard to find out what went wrong if the OS crashed, although it is usually of little help for the average sysadmin.
  • promethazine — a phenothiaxine derivative, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 2 S, used for the symptomatic relief of allergies and in the management of motion sickness.
  • promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
  • protactinium — a radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Pa; atomic number: 91.
  • prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • provitamin a — carotene.
  • pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
  • pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
  • psychonomics — the study of the individual mind in relation to its environment
  • pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
  • public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
  • puerto limon — Limón (def 2).
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