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12-letter words containing o, n, c, p

  • ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
  • ethnopoetics — A poetical, linguistic and anthropological movement dealing with poetry written by, or in the style of, indigenous peoples.
  • euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
  • exceptionals — Plural form of exceptional.
  • expectations — Plural form of expectation.
  • expectorants — Plural form of expectorant.
  • explications — Plural form of explication.
  • face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
  • film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
  • fire company — a company of firefighters.
  • fort pickensAndrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
  • francophilia — Alternative capitalization of Francophilia.
  • francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
  • francophones — Plural form of francophone.
  • free company — a band of free companions.
  • frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
  • galvanoscope — an instrument for detecting the existence of an electric current and determining its direction.
  • gap junction — a linkage of two adjacent cells consisting of a system of channels extending across a gap from one cell to the other, allowing the passage of ions and small molecules.
  • garrison cap — overseas cap.
  • glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
  • glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
  • glycoprotein — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
  • golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
  • gonadotropic — pertaining to substances formed in the anterior pituitary gland that affect the activity of the ovary or testis.
  • graphophonic — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
  • gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
  • have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
  • heckelphones — Plural form of heckelphone.
  • heterophonic — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
  • hickory pine — bristlecone pine.
  • hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
  • high concept — a simple and often striking idea or premise, as of a story or film, that lends itself to easy promotion and marketing.
  • hippocentaur — Centaur.
  • hippocrepian — (of an aquatic organism or plant) shaped like a horseshoe
  • hire company — a company that hires things out to people
  • holocephalan — (zoology) Any cartilaginous fish of the subclass Holocephali; the chimeras.
  • holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
  • honeycreeper — any of several small, usually brightly colored birds, related to the tanagers and wood warblers, of tropical and semitropical America.
  • hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
  • hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
  • hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
  • hypnotically — of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
  • hypochondria — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
  • hypofunction — abnormally diminished function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • hypotonicity — Physiology. (of tissue) having less than the normal tone.
  • ichnospecies — (paleontology) Any species known only from trace fossils, such as footprints, coprolites or nests.
  • iconographic — of or relating to iconography.
  • iconophilism — a taste for pictures and symbols
  • iconophilist — a person with a taste for pictures and symbols
  • imperception — lack of perception.
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