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

  • nyctitropism — tending to assume at or just before nightfall positions unlike those maintained during the day, as the leaves or flowers of certain plants.
  • oligophrenic — less than normal mental development.
  • omnipresence — present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
  • on principle — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
  • open circuit — a discontinuous circuit through which no current can flow.
  • open verdict — law: coroner's jury finding
  • optic center — a point about ten percent above the exact center of a printed page or layout.
  • organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
  • organotropic — designating or of a substance or virus that travels predominantly to a specific organ
  • ornithoscopy — divination from the observation of birds
  • outcroppings — Plural form of outcropping.
  • overcropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
  • pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
  • pain control — methods for the relief and management of pain
  • panchromatic — sensitive to all visible colors, as a photographic film.
  • pantisocracy — a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal
  • parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
  • paralation c — Paralation embedded in C. Under development.
  • paranoically — in a paranoiac manner
  • paronomastic — the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
  • patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
  • pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
  • pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
  • pentacrinoid — a larval crinoid resembling members of the genus Pentacrinus
  • perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • percussional — of or relating to percussion
  • perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
  • pericynthion — the point at which a spacecraft launched from earth into a lunar orbit is nearest the moon
  • periodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the study and treatment of diseases of the periodontium.
  • perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
  • peristeronic — of, pertaining to, or resembling pigeons
  • perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
  • pernoctation — the act of staying all night in a place, esp for prayer or as a vigil
  • pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • petrogenetic — relating to petrogenesis
  • phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • phenocrystic — relating to a phenocryst
  • philharmonic — fond of or devoted to music; music-loving: used especially in the name of certain musical societies that sponsor symphony orchestras (Philharmonic Societies) and hence applied to their concerts (philharmonic concerts)
  • phonographic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a phonograph.
  • picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
  • picrocarmine — a red powder containing carmine and picric acid which is used in staining processes
  • picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
  • pinch roller — a flexible device that presses magnetic tape against the capstan in a tape recorder.
  • pindaric ode — an ode consisting of several units, each of which is composed of a strophe and an antistrophe of identical form followed by a contrasting epode.
  • pinturicchio — real name Bernardino di Betto. ?1454–1513, Italian painter of the Umbrian school
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
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