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12-letter words containing p, a, y, m, e

  • 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.
  • money player — a person who performs best under pressure, especially in a competitive situation.
  • movable type — type from which text is printed directly in which each character is on a separate piece of metal.
  • mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
  • myrmecophage — (biology) Anteaters, and other animals chiefly feeding on ants.
  • myrmecophagy — Ant-eating.
  • mystery play — a medieval dramatic form based on a Biblical story, usually dealing with the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
  • mythographer — a person who collects or records myths in writing.
  • norway maple — a European maple, Acer platanoides, having bright-green leaves, grown as a shade tree in the U.S.
  • open primary — a direct primary election in which voters need not meet a test of party membership.
  • overtime pay — a higher than normal rate of pay, for work done as overtime
  • pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • paroemiology — the study of proverbs
  • part payment — partial payment; a payment that is not the full price
  • pastry cream — a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc
  • patellectomy — the surgical removal of the patella
  • payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
  • payment bond — See under contract bond.
  • payment card — A payment card is a plastic card which you use like a credit card, but which takes the money directly from your bank account.
  • payment date — the date on which a payment (of a debt, bill, etc) is used to be paid
  • pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
  • permeability — the property or state of being permeable.
  • phenomenally — highly extraordinary or prodigious; exceptional: phenomenal speed.
  • phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
  • pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
  • pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
  • pneumatology — Theology. doctrine concerning the Holy Spirit. the belief in intermediary spirits between humans and God.
  • pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • 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.
  • premaritally — in a premarital manner
  • premaxillary — one of a pair of bones of the upper jaw of vertebrates, situated in front of and between the maxillary bones.
  • prenominally — before a noun
  • primary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
  • primary care — medical care by a physician, or other health-care professional, who is the patient's first contact with the health-care system and who may recommend a specialist if necessary.
  • primary cell — a cell designed to produce electric current through an electrochemical reaction that is not efficiently reversible, so that the cell when discharged cannot be efficiently recharged by an electric current.
  • primary type — a specimen used in the original description or illustration of a species.
  • primary verb — one of the three verbs, be, do, and have, that can function both as a main verb and an auxiliary verb.
  • primary wave — Seismology. P wave.
  • property man — a member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
  • pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
  • pyramid peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,018 feet (4276 meters).
  • pyrazinamide — a substance, C 5 H 5 N 3 O, used in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
  • pyrithiamine — an antivitamin that causes thiamine deficiency
  • pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
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