12-letter words containing p, o, y, n
- compellingly — in a way that demands attention and interest
- compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
- complacently — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- compound eye — the convex eye of insects and some crustaceans, consisting of numerous separate light-sensitive units (ommatidia)
- compound key — (database) (Or "multi-part key", "concatenated key") A key which consists of more than one attribute of the body of information (e.g. database "record") it identifies.
- conceptually — pertaining to concepts or to the forming of concepts.
- conspectuity — vision or sight
- conspiratory — the act of conspiring.
- contemporary — Contemporary things are modern and relate to the present time.
- contemptibly — deserving of or held in contempt; despicable.
- copy machine — A copy machine is the same as a copier.
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- copyrighting — Present participle of copyright.
- counterparty — a person who is a party to a contract
- counterreply — a reply made in response to a reply; rejoinder.
- countertypes — Plural form of countertype.
- country park — an area of countryside, usually not less than 10 hectares, set aside for public recreation: often funded by a Countryside Commission grant
- craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- crown canopy — canopy (def 4).
- cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- cryptonymous — having a code name or secret name
- cycloheptane — (organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C7H14; a volatile inflammable liquid.
- cyclopentane — a colourless insoluble cycloalkane found in petroleum and used mainly as a solvent. Formula: C5H10
- cyclopropane — a colourless flammable gaseous hydrocarbon, used in medicine as an anaesthetic; trimethylene. It is a cycloalkane with molecules containing rings of three carbon atoms. Formula: C3H6; boiling pt: –34°C
- cyclosporine — a drug, produced by a fungus (Tolypocladium inflatum), that suppresses the T cells that reject foreign tissue after an organ transplant without suppressing other cells that fight infections and cancer
- cyprinodonts — Plural form of cyprinodont.
- dehypnotized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehypnotize.
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- despondently — feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health.
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, 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
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- enantiopathy — the treatment of disease by opposites; allopathy
- enantiotropy — the possibility for stable polymorphs to exist in different states on either side of a transition-point temperature
- encyclopedia — An encyclopedia is a book or set of books in which facts about many different subjects or about one particular subject are arranged for reference, usually in alphabetical order.
- encyclopedic — Comprehensive in terms of information.
- endophyllous — enclosed in a leaf or sheath
- enhypostasia — personalities existing in union (Jesus Christ and God the Son)
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- enthesopathy — (pathology) A disorder of entheses (bone attachments).
- entropically — By means of or in relation to entropy.