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12-letter words containing p, a, r, m, i

  • microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
  • microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
  • microprogram — Computers. a set of microinstructions that defines the individual operations that a computer carries out in response to a machine-language instruction.
  • milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
  • milliamperes — Plural form of milliampere.
  • milman parry — Milman, 1902–35, U.S. classical scholar and philologist.
  • mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
  • minimal pair — a pair of words, as pin and bin, or bet and bed, differing only by one sound in the same position in each word, especially when such a pair is taken as evidence for the existence of a phonemic contrast between the two sounds.
  • minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
  • miracle play — a medieval dramatic form dealing with religious subjects such as Biblical stories or saints' lives, usually presented in a series or cycle by the craft guilds.
  • mirror plant — a shrub, Coprosma repens, of the madder family, native to New Zealand and cultivated in warm regions, having glossy, often variegated leaves.
  • misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
  • misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  • misappraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
  • misapprehend — to misunderstand.
  • misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
  • misportrayal — the act of portraying.
  • mitteleuropa — Central Europe.
  • monographing — Present participle of monograph.
  • morphallaxis — Biology. the regeneration of a destroyed body part by the reorganization of its remaining cells.
  • multi-parity — of or relating to a multipara.
  • multipartite — divided into several or many parts; having several or many divisions.
  • mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
  • new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
  • newspaperism — anything characteristic of newspapers, esp a word or phrase used only by journalists
  • nonempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
  • nonimportant — Not important.
  • normal pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
  • oil platform — An oil platform is a structure that is used when getting oil from the ground under the sea.
  • oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
  • open primary — a direct primary election in which voters need not meet a test of party membership.
  • operationism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
  • optometrical — the practice or profession of examining the eyes, by means of suitable instruments or appliances, for defects in vision and eye disorders in order to prescribe corrective lenses or other appropriate treatment.
  • overemphasis — excessive or undue emphasis.
  • overemphatic — excessive or undue emphasis.
  • overtime pay — a higher than normal rate of pay, for work done as overtime
  • paedomorphic — showing signs of paedomorphism
  • paimio chair — a chair developed by Alvar Aalto between 1930 and 1933, having two continuous, ribbonlike elements made of bent laminated birch veneers forming the arms and legs and supporting a sheet of bent plywood that forms the back and seat.
  • pakeha māori — (in the 19th century) a European who adopted the Māori way of life
  • palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
  • pan-american — of, relating to, or representing all the countries or people of North, Central, and South America.
  • panchromatic — sensitive to all visible colors, as a photographic film.
  • panspermatic — relating to panspermia
  • papier-mache — a substance made of pulped paper or paper pulp mixed with glue and other materials or of layers of paper glued and pressed together, molded when moist to form various articles, and becoming hard and strong when dry.
  • pappenheimer — a heavy rapier of the 17th century, having a swept guard with two perforated plates.
  • para-medical — related to the medical profession in a secondary or supplementary capacity.
  • parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
  • paradigmatic — of or relating to a paradigm.
  • paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
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