12-letter words containing p, o, m, n, a
- cosmopolitan — A cosmopolitan place or society is full of people from many different countries and cultures.
- counterstamp — a stamp added to a stamped paper or document as a qualifying mark.
- coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- cuprammonium — an ion of copper oxide used (in solution) in the manufacture of rayon and other man-made fibres
- decompensate — to undergo decompensation due to disease or impairment
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- dipsomaniacs — Plural form of dipsomaniac.
- dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
- domino paper — a marbleized or figured decorative paper, used for wallpaper, end papers, etc., printed from wood blocks and colored by hand.
- dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
- down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- economy pack — a large pack of goods that is cheaper than a normal-sized pack
- emancipation — The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- empassionate — intensely affected
- enantiomorph — Each of two crystalline or other geometric forms that are mirror images of each other.
- encompasseth — Archaic third-person singular form of encompass.
- encompassing — Present participle of encompass.
- enophthalmos — The posterior displacement of the eyeball within the orbit due to changes in the volume of the orbit (bone) relative to its contents (the eyeball and orbital fat), or loss of function of the orbitalis muscle.
- entomophobia — Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
- epiphenomena — Plural form of epiphenomenon.
- epithalamion — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
- epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
- expansionism — The policy of territorial or economic expansion.
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- free company — a band of free companions.
- 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.
- gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- 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.
- harmonograph — an instrument using a system of pendulums to produce geometric images
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- homo sapiens — (italics) the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong, characterized by a brain capacity averaging 1400 cc (85 cubic in.) and by dependence upon language and the creation and utilization of complex tools.
- hop hornbeam — any of several Eurasian and North American trees of the genus Ostrya, of the birch family, especially O. virginiana, bearing hoplike fruiting clusters.
- hope diamond — a sapphire-blue Indian diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, weighing 44.5 carats and supposedly cut from a bigger diamond that was once part of the French crown jewels: now in the Smithsonian Institution.
- horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.