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12-letter words containing p, r, o, n

  • groundkeeper — groundskeeper.
  • group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
  • gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
  • haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
  • handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
  • hanover park — a city in NE Illinois.
  • harmonograph — an instrument using a system of pendulums to produce geometric images
  • helmspersons — Plural form of helmsperson.
  • heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
  • hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
  • herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
  • heterophonic — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
  • heteropteran — A bug of the group Heteroptera.
  • hickory pine — bristlecone pine.
  • hierophanies — Plural form of hierophany.
  • hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
  • high-protein — (of a food) rich in proteins
  • hippocentaur — Centaur.
  • hippocrepian — (of an aquatic organism or plant) shaped like a horseshoe
  • hippodroming — (baseball) present participle of hippodrome; Staging games to suit gamblers, especially baseball.
  • hire company — a company that hires things out to people
  • honeycreeper — any of several small, usually brightly colored birds, related to the tanagers and wood warblers, of tropical and semitropical America.
  • hoover apron — a dresslike coverall for women that ties at the waist.
  • 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.
  • horned poppy — any of several Eurasian papaveraceous plants of the genera Glaucium and Roemeria, having large brightly coloured flowers and long curved seed capsules
  • horned viper — a highly venomous viper, Cerastes cerastes, of northern Africa and extreme southwestern Asia, having a process resembling a horn just above each eye.
  • horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.
  • housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
  • hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
  • hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
  • hydroplaning — a seaplane.
  • hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
  • hymenopteran — hymenopterous.
  • hymenopteron — hymenopteran.
  • hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
  • hyperflexion — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
  • hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
  • hypertension — Pathology. elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure. an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
  • hypnotherapy — treatment of a symptom, disease, or addiction by means of hypnotism.
  • hypochondria — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
  • hyponatremia — (medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium (or salt) in blood plasma.
  • hypophrygian — (in medieval church music) of or relating to the fourth of the eight scales
  • hypoplastron — the third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles
  • iconographic — of or relating to iconography.
  • il penseroso — a poem (1632) by John Milton.
  • impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
  • imperception — lack of perception.
  • imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
  • impersonally — In an impersonal manner.
  • impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
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