12-letter words containing p, r, i, m, o
- 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.
- 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.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- 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.
- 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
- germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
- ghost shrimp — a shrimplike crustacean of the genus Callianassa, of the Pacific coast of North America, having a pinkish, transparent body.
- gossipmonger — a person especially fond of or addicted to gossiping.
- gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
- gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- 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.
- hemispheroid — half of a spheroid.
- high polymer — a polymer composed of a large number of monomers.
- hippodroming — (baseball) present participle of hippodrome; Staging games to suit gamblers, especially baseball.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- homeomorphic — similarity in crystalline form but not necessarily in chemical composition.
- homomorphism — Biology. correspondence in form or external appearance but not in type of structure or origin.
- horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.
- hydromorphic — of or relating to soil having characteristics that are developed when there is excess water all or part of the time.
- hydrotropism — oriented growth in response to water.
- hylomorphism — the theory that every physical object is composed of two principles, an unchanging prime matter and a form deprived of actuality with every substantial change of the object.
- hyperchromic — (physics, chemistry) Describing an increase in the intensity of a spectral band due to a change in the molecular environment.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hypervolemia — (medicine) An abnormal increase in the volume of blood circulating through the body.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hyponatremia — (medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium (or salt) in blood plasma.
- hypsochromic — (physics) Of a change in the position of a spectral band, to a higher frequency.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- imidacloprid — The insecticide 1-(6-chloro-3-pyridylmethyl)-N-nitroimidazolidin-2-ylideneamine used to control fleas in domestic pets.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- imperatorial — Commanding; authoritative.
- imperception — lack of perception.
- imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- imperforated — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
- impersonally — In an impersonal manner.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impersonates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impersonate.
- impersonator — a person who pretends to be another.
- imperviously — In an impervious manner; impenetrably; impermeably.
- implementors — Plural form of implementor.