12-letter words containing p, r, a, g, m
- impregnation — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- karnaugh map — A Karnaugh map is a pictorial method used to minimize Boolean expressions without having to use Boolean algebra theorems.
- karyomapping — a technique for determining whether an embryo has inherited a genetic defect by analysing DNA taken from it and its close relatives
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- laryngospasm — An uncontrolled, spasmodic closure of the larynx.
- loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
- lymphography — lymphangiography.
- macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
- magic carpet — flying rug in fantasy stories
- magnetograph — a recording magnetometer, used especially for recording variations in the earth's magnetic field.
- magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
- make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
- mammographic — Of, or pertaining to, mammography.
- manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
- marconigraph — (dated) wireless telegraph.
- margin plank — a plank forming a border for wooden decking.
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- martempering — a quenching process used to harden austenitic steel.
- mastigophora — a phylum of protozoans comprising nonphotosynthetic, chiefly free-living flagellates: some species are important pathogens of humans and other animals.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- memphremagog — Lake, a lake on the boundary between the U.S. and Canada, between N Vermont and S Quebec. 30 miles (48 km) long.
- metallograph — a microscope for observing the microstructure of metals.
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- meteorograph — an instrument for automatically recording various meteorological conditions, as barometric pressure and temperature, at the same time.
- micrographia — minute handwriting.
- micrographic — Pertaining to micrographics.
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- microprogram — Computers. a set of microinstructions that defines the individual operations that a computer carries out in response to a machine-language instruction.
- mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
- monographing — Present participle of monograph.
- morphographs — Plural form of morphograph.
- morphography — the scientific description of an external form
- myrmecophage — (biology) Anteaters, and other animals chiefly feeding on ants.
- myrmecophagy — Ant-eating.
- mythographer — a person who collects or records myths in writing.
- new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
- oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
- palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
- pampas grass — a tall, ornamental grass, Cortaderia selloana, native to South America, having large, thick, feathery, silvery-white panicles.
- paradigmatic — of or relating to a paradigm.
- paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
- paramagnetic — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- parking ramp — apron (def 6).
- parlour game — A parlour game is a game that is played indoors by families or at parties, for example a guessing game.
- parmigianino — (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) 1503–40, Italian painter.
- paroemiology — the study of proverbs
- perfect game — a baseball game in which the same player pitches throughout the full game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by a base hit, base on balls, error, or any other means. Compare no-hitter.