12-letter words containing o, p, s, n, i, c
- myringoscope — an instrument for examining the eardrum
- necrophilism — necrophilia.
- necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
- necropolises — Plural form of necropolis.
- nepotistical — Nepotistic.
- neuroleptics — Plural form of neuroleptic.
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- neutrosophic — Neutrosophy
- new politics — politics concerned more with grass-roots participation in the political process than with party loyalty or affiliation: identified especially with the candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
- non-hispanic — Spanish.
- non-specific — Non-specific medical conditions or symptoms have more than one possible cause.
- non-strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
- nonapostolic — Not apostolic.
- nondescripts — Plural form of nondescript.
- nonparasitic — Not parasitic.
- nonphysician — a person who is not a physician
- nonpsychotic — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- nonspherical — not spherical
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- nyctitropism — tending to assume at or just before nightfall positions unlike those maintained during the day, as the leaves or flowers of certain plants.
- omnipresence — present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
- on suspicion — as a suspect
- opisthotonic — of or relating to opisthotonos
- optogenetics — (genetics) A science that combines optics and genetics to probe neural circuits.
- ornithoscopy — divination from the observation of birds
- outcroppings — Plural form of outcropping.
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
- 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.
- 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.
- pas d'action — a dramatic, pantomimic dance sequence serving to advance the plot.
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- periodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the study and treatment of diseases of the periodontium.
- peristeronic — of, pertaining to, or resembling pigeons
- perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- phenocrystic — relating to a phenocryst
- phonesthemic — (of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn- of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc.
- phonotactics — the patterns in which the phonemes of a language may combine to form sequences.
- physiognomic — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- 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.
- pigeon-chest — chicken breast.
- pinchcommons — a person who is frugal with food
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
- 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