12-letter words containing p, r, i, m, e
- epigrammatic — Of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing.
- epimorphosis — a type of development in animals, such as certain insect larvae, in which segmentation of the body is complete before hatching
- epirrhematic — relating to epirrhema
- examinership — the office or function of an examiner
- expatriatism — The condition of being an expatriate, especially a deliberate one.
- experimental — (of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized.
- experimented — Simple past tense and past participle of experiment.
- experimenter — A person who experiments.
- express mail — mail delivered quicker than normal mail
- expromission — the act of (a creditor) accepting a new debtor as being responsible for the debt of another person
- extemporised — Simple past tense and past participle of extemporise.
- extemporized — Simple past tense and past participle of extemporize.
- extemporizer — One who extemporizes.
- extemporizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extemporize.
- extracampine — (psychiatry, of hallucination) Beyond the possible sensory field.
- extremophile — A microorganism, especially an archaean, that lives in conditions of extreme temperature, acidity, alkalinity, or chemical concentration.
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- fermat prime — (mathematics) A prime number of the form 2^2^n + 1. Any prime number of the form 2^n+1 must be a Fermat prime. Fermat conjectured in a letter to someone or other that all numbers 2^2^n+1 are prime, having noticed that this is true for n=0,1,2,3,4. No further Fermat primes are known; several have been factorised, and several more have been proved composite without finding explicit factorisations.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- first empire — the empire (1804–14) established in France by Napoleon Bonaparte.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- former pupil — someone who used to attend a particular school or be a student of a particular teacher
- freshmanship — the state of being a freshman; the period during which a student is considered to be a freshman
- germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
- gossipmonger — a person especially fond of or addicted to gossiping.
- 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.
- 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.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- hammer price — the price offered as the winning bid in a public auction
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- hemapheresis — apheresis.
- hemimorphism — The condition of being hemimorphic.
- hemimorphite — a hydrous zinc silicate mineral, Zn 4 (OH) 2 Si 2 O 7 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in clear, colorless orthorhombic crystals; calamine: an ore of zinc.
- hemiparasite — A plant that obtains or may obtain part of its food by parasitism, e.g., mistletoe, which also photosynthesizes.
- hemispheroid — half of a spheroid.
- hephthemimer — a verse with a group of seven metrical half feet
- high polymer — a polymer composed of a large number of monomers.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- homeomorphic — similarity in crystalline form but not necessarily in chemical composition.
- horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.
- hyperchromic — (physics, chemistry) Describing an increase in the intensity of a spectral band due to a change in the molecular environment.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hyperendemic — manifesting a high and persistent occurrence
- hyperkalemia — an abnormally high concentration of potassium in the blood.
- hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- hyperlipemia — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; lipemia.
- hyperlipemic — characterized by an excessive level of fat in the blood
- hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- hypermediacy — Hypermedia literacy; the state of being conversant with hypermedia technologies.