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12-letter words containing p, a, s, m, e, r

  • metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
  • metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
  • metric space — a space with a metric defined on it.
  • microamperes — Plural form of microampere.
  • microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
  • milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
  • milliamperes — Plural form of milliampere.
  • misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
  • misapprehend — to misunderstand.
  • misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
  • montparnasse — a district in S Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine: noted for its cafés and the artists and writers who have frequented and lived in the area.
  • mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
  • muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
  • mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
  • mystery play — a medieval dramatic form based on a Biblical story, usually dealing with the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
  • newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
  • newspaperism — anything characteristic of newspapers, esp a word or phrase used only by journalists
  • newspaperman — a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
  • newspapermen — a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
  • normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
  • oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
  • 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.
  • overemphasis — excessive or undue emphasis.
  • pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • pamperedness — the state of being pampered
  • panspermatic — relating to panspermia
  • parallel sml — ["Parallel SML: A Functional Language and its Implementation in Dactl", Kevin Hammond, Pitman Press 1990].
  • parameterise — to describe (a phenomenon, problem, curve, surface, etc.) by the use of parameters.
  • parasitaemia — the condition of having parasites in the blood
  • pastry cream — a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc
  • pearl primus — Pearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
  • periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
  • peristomatic — surrounding a leaf's stoma or stomata
  • perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
  • persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
  • photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • phrase-maker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
  • plasmasphere — a region of cool plasma surrounding the earth, extending 8000–25,000 miles (13,000–40,000 km) into space, and bounded by the plasmapause.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • postal meter — a postal franking machine
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • power-stream — to stream and watch (multiple videos, episodes of a TV show, etc.) in one sitting or over a short period of time.
  • praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
  • pre-assembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
  • pre-estimate — to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately: to estimate the cost of a college education.
  • preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
  • preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
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