12-letter words containing p, a, s, i, o, n
- japonaiserie — stylistic characteristics, as in art, decor, or film, influenced by or reflective of Japanese culture and tradition.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- jumpstations — Plural form of jumpstation.
- kinesophobia — Fear of movement.
- kinetoplasts — Plural form of kinetoplast.
- kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
- main-topmast — the mast next above the main lower mast.
- main-topsail — a topsail set on the mainmast.
- malpositions — Plural form of malposition.
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- marine corps — a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces trained for land, sea, and air combat, typically for land combat in conjunction with an amphibious or airborne landing, and whose commandant is responsible to the secretary of the navy.
- master point — a point awarded to a bridge player who has won or placed in an officially recognized tournament.
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
- mesopotamian — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
- millilampson — /mil'*-lamp"sn/ A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000. A few people speak faster. This unit is sometimes used to compare the (sometimes widely disparate) rates at which people can generate ideas and actually emit them in speech. For example, noted computer architect C. Gordon Bell (designer of the PDP-11) is said, with some awe, to think at about 1200 mL but only talk at about 300; he is frequently reduced to fragments of sentences as his mouth tries to keep up with his speeding brain.
- misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- monosynaptic — having or relating to a sole synapse
- moss campion — cushion pink.
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- mountaintops — Plural form of mountaintop.
- neoplatonism — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- neoplatonist — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- nepotistical — Nepotistic.
- neuropathies — Plural form of neuropathy.
- neuropathist — a specialist in treating diseases of the nervous system; a neurologist
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- non-hispanic — Spanish.
- non-partisan — A person or group that is non-partisan does not support or help a particular political party or group.
- nonapostolic — Not apostolic.
- nonexpansile — Not expansile.
- nonparasitic — Not parasitic.
- nonpasserine — (of a bird) not belonging or relating to the Passeriformes
- nonphysician — a person who is not a physician
- nonspherical — not spherical
- nonspiritual — Not spiritual.
- np-hilarious — (humour) An algorithm whose complexity is a joke, either literally, as in BogoSort, or metaphorically.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- on shipboard — on board a ship
- onion-shaped — bulb-shaped; shaped like an onion
- opera singer — a professional singer of opera
- 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.
- opinionators — Plural form of opinionator.