12-letter words containing p, a, r, m, i
- epigrammatic — Of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing.
- epirrhematic — relating to epirrhema
- examinership — the office or function of an examiner
- expatriatism — The condition of being an expatriate, especially a deliberate one.
- experimental — (of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized.
- express mail — mail delivered quicker than normal mail
- extracampine — (psychiatry, of hallucination) Beyond the possible sensory field.
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- fairy shrimp — any member of the crustacean order Anostraca, characterized by an elongate trunk with more than 20 segments and the absence of a carapace, typically found swimming ventral side up in fresh water.
- fermat prime — (mathematics) A prime number of the form 2^2^n + 1. Any prime number of the form 2^n+1 must be a Fermat prime. Fermat conjectured in a letter to someone or other that all numbers 2^2^n+1 are prime, having noticed that this is true for n=0,1,2,3,4. No further Fermat primes are known; several have been factorised, and several more have been proved composite without finding explicit factorisations.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- freshmanship — the state of being a freshman; the period during which a student is considered to be a freshman
- germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
- gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
- grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
- gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
- great primer — an 18-point type of a size larger than Columbian, formerly used for Bibles.
- grimsel pass — an Alpine pass in S Switzerland. 7159 feet (2184 meters) high.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- hair implant — the insertion of synthetic fibers or human hair into the scalp to cover baldness.
- hammer price — the price offered as the winning bid in a public auction
- hemapheresis — apheresis.
- hemiparasite — A plant that obtains or may obtain part of its food by parasitism, e.g., mistletoe, which also photosynthesizes.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hyperkalemia — an abnormally high concentration of potassium in the blood.
- hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- hyperlipemia — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; lipemia.
- hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- hypermediacy — Hypermedia literacy; the state of being conversant with hypermedia technologies.
- hyperrealism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hyperthermia — Pathology. abnormally high fever.
- hypervolemia — (medicine) An abnormal increase in the volume of blood circulating through the body.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hyponatremia — (medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium (or salt) in blood plasma.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- imidacloprid — The insecticide 1-(6-chloro-3-pyridylmethyl)-N-nitroimidazolidin-2-ylideneamine used to control fleas in domestic pets.
- imparadising — Present participle of imparadise.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- impartialist — Someone who is or pretends to be impartial.
- impartiality — not partial or biased; fair; just: an impartial judge.
- imparticular — (proscribed) in particular.
- impenetrable — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- impenetrably — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- imperatively — absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave.
- imperatorial — Commanding; authoritative.