12-letter words containing o, p, t, m
- pocket money — money for small, current expenses.
- pocket mouse — any of numerous burrowing rodents, especially of the genus Perognathus, chiefly inhabiting arid regions of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having fur-lined cheek pouches and a long tail.
- poète maudit — a poet who receives insufficient recognition in his or her own time
- poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
- 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).
- polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
- polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
- polycythemic — relating to polycythemia
- polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polymyositis — a disorder characterized by the inflammation of multiple muscles
- polyrhythmic — the simultaneous occurrence of sharply contrasting rhythms within a composition.
- porismatical — porismatic
- port hueneme — a city in S California.
- port moresby — an independent republic in the W Pacific Ocean, comprising the E part of New Guinea and numerous near-lying islands, including the Bismarck Archipelago, the Admiralty Islands, the Trobriand Islands, and Bougainville and Buka in the Solomon Islands: a former Australian Trusteeship Territory; independent since 1975; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 178,260 sq. mi. (461,693 sq. km). Capital: Port Moresby.
- portal frame — a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway
- porto amelia — former name of Pemba (def 2).
- post-fordism — the idea that modern industrial production has moved away from mass production in huge factories, as pioneered by Henry Ford, towards specialized markets based on small flexible manufacturing units
- post-primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- postal meter — a postal franking machine
- postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- posthumously — arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award for bravery.
- postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
- postischemic — occurring after or due to ischaemia
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- postliminium — postliminy.
- postliminous — occurring after; subsequent
- postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- postmidnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- postmistress — a woman in charge of a post office.
- postorgasmic — of or relating to the period after an orgasm
- postponement — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- postromantic — of or relating to the period after Romanticism
- postsphygmic — of or relating to the pulse.
- poststimulus — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following the administering of a stimulus
- postvagotomy — of or occurring in the period after a vagotomy
- pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
- pot marjoram — oregano.
- potamologist — a specialist in potamology
- potichomania — the art or process of printing or using paint to decorate the inside of a glass vessel
- poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
- power-stream — to stream and watch (multiple videos, episodes of a TV show, etc.) in one sitting or over a short period of time.
- preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
- preformation — previous formation.
- preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
- preformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
- premigration — occurring before migration
- presumptuous — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.