12-letter words containing p, m
- fissipalmate — (of birds) having the toes lobed or partially webbed.
- flameproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of flameproof.
- flameproofer — any agent which renders something flameproof
- floor sample — an appliance, piece of furniture, or other article of merchandise that has been used for display or demonstration and is usually offered at a reduced price.
- foam plastic — a kind of light cellular plastic made by creating bubbles of gas in the liquid material and solidifying it: often used as an insulator
- folsom point — a flint point characteristic of the Folsom tradition, typically leaf-shaped and fluted, with small basal extensions, and used on a projectile, as a spear, for hunting game.
- food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.
- footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
- fore-topmast — the spar or section of a pole mast serving as the topmast of a foremast on a ship.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- foretopmasts — Plural form of foretopmast.
- former pupil — someone who used to attend a particular school or be a student of a particular teacher
- formyl group — the univalent group HCO–, derived from formic acid.
- frank murphy — Frank, 1890–1949, U.S. statesman and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1940–49.
- free company — a band of free companions.
- freshmanship — the state of being a freshman; the period during which a student is considered to be a freshman
- gamesmanship — the use of methods, especially in a sports contest, that are dubious or seemingly improper but not strictly illegal.
- gametophores — Plural form of gametophore.
- gametophytes — Plural form of gametophyte.
- gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
- gamopetalous — having the petals united.
- gamophyllous — having leaves united by their edges.
- gamosepalous — having the sepals united.
- garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
- gelande jump — jump made in downhill skiing
- gene mapping — any of a number of methods used to construct a model of the linear sequence of genes of a particular chromosome.
- germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
- germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
- get the hump — If someone gets the hump, they get very annoyed about something.
- get up steam — (of a ship, etc) to work up a sufficient head of steam in a boiler to drive an engine
- ghost shrimp — a shrimplike crustacean of the genus Callianassa, of the Pacific coast of North America, having a pinkish, transparent body.
- glamour puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- glamour-puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- gospel music — a now popularized form of impassioned rhythmic spiritual music rooted in the solo and responsive church singing of rural blacks in the American South, central to the development of rhythm and blues and of soul music.
- gossipmonger — a person especially fond of or addicted to gossiping.
- gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
- grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
- gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
- great primer — an 18-point type of a size larger than Columbian, formerly used for Bibles.
- grimsel pass — an Alpine pass in S Switzerland. 7159 feet (2184 meters) high.
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- gymnosophist — one of a group of Jainist philosophers, existing from ancient times to c1000, characterized by refusal to wear clothes and the abandonment of caste marks; a member of the Digambara sect.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- haemophiliac — A person with haemophilia.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- hair implant — the insertion of synthetic fibers or human hair into the scalp to cover baldness.
- halogen lamp — a gas-filled, high-intensity incandescent lamp having a tungsten filament and containing a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine, that vaporizes on heating and redeposits any evaporated tungsten particles back onto the filament: used especially in motion-picture projectors and automobile headlights.
- hammer price — the price offered as the winning bid in a public auction
- happy camper — Slang. a person who is cheerful and satisfied: There were no happy campers after the company was reorganized.
- happy medium — a course of action or condition that is between two extremes: Our climate is a happy medium between hot and cold.