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12-letter words containing n, p, t, i, m

  • 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
  • predetermine — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
  • preeminently — eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing: He is preeminent in his profession.
  • preformation — previous formation.
  • premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
  • premarketing — before the development of a market
  • premigration — occurring before migration
  • presenteeism — the practice of coming to work despite illness, injury, anxiety, etc., often resulting in reduced productivity.
  • presentiment — a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil; foreboding.
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
  • primogenitor — a first parent or earliest ancestor: Adam and Eve are the primogenitors of the human race.
  • proclamation — something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
  • 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.).
  • protactinium — a radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Pa; atomic number: 91.
  • prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • provitamin a — carotene.
  • pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
  • pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
  • puerto limon — Limón (def 2).
  • pumice stone — abrasive stone used for exfoliating
  • pumice-stone — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
  • pyrithiamine — an antivitamin that causes thiamine deficiency
  • pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
  • re-equipment — the act of re-equipping
  • 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.
  • redemptioner — an emigrant from Europe to America who obtained passage by becoming an indentured servant for a specified period of time.
  • salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
  • sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
  • 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.
  • 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 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
  • slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
  • somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
  • somers point — a town in SE New Jersey.
  • standpattism — belief in or the practice of resisting or refusing to accept change, especially in politics.
  • streptomycin — an antibiotic, C 2 1 H 3 9 N 7 O 1 2 , produced by a soil actinomycete, Streptomyces griseus, and used in medicine in the form of its white, water-soluble sulfate salt, chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • strip mining — excavation method
  • suction pump — a pump for raising water or other fluids by suction, consisting essentially of a vertical cylinder in which a piston works up and down, both the cylinder and the pump having valves that control the flow of the fluid.
  • supereminent — of superior eminence, rank, or dignity; distinguished, conspicuous, or worthy of note above others.
  • sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
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