12-letter words containing p, i, e, t, r, m
- peristomatic — surrounding a leaf's stoma or stomata
- permeability — the property or state of being permeable.
- permissivist — lenience toward or indulgence of a wide variety of social behavior.
- permittivity — Electricity. the ratio of the flux density produced by an electric field in a given dielectric to the flux density produced by that field in a vacuum.
- 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
- petrochemist — someone who studies petrochemistry or works in the petrochemical industry
- pharmaceutic — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- pharmacolite — hydrous calcium arsenate, 2CaO⋅As 2 O 5 ⋅5H 2 O, formed by natural alteration of mineral deposits containing arsenopyrite and arsenical ores of cobalt and silver.
- 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.
- photothermic — pertaining to the thermal effects of light.
- piatra neamt — a city in NE Romania, in Moldavia.
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
- piet-my-vrou — a cuckoo, Notococcyx solitarius, having a red breast
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- pleiotropism — the condition of a gene affecting more than one characteristic of the phenotype
- pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
- poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
- polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
- porto amelia — former name of Pemba (def 2).
- postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- postmistress — a woman in charge of a post office.
- 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.
- predetermine — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
- preeminently — eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing: He is preeminent in his profession.
- preemptively — of or relating to preemption.
- preformation — previous formation.
- preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
- premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
- premaritally — in a premarital manner
- premarketing — before the development of a market
- premedicated — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- premeditated — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
- premigration — occurring before migration
- premium-rate — (relating to telephone calls) charged at a higher than standard rate
- presenteeism — the practice of coming to work despite illness, injury, anxiety, etc., often resulting in reduced productivity.
- presentiment — a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil; foreboding.
- primary type — a specimen used in the original description or illustration of a species.
- prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
- primogenital — relating to primogeniture
- primogenitor — a first parent or earliest ancestor: Adam and Eve are the primogenitors of the human race.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic
- promethazine — a phenothiaxine derivative, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 2 S, used for the symptomatic relief of allergies and in the management of motion sickness.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
- protosemitic — the hypothetical parent language of the Semitic group of languages
- proximities' — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
- psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
- pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns