12-letter words containing p, y, i, n
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- copyrighting — Present participle of copyright.
- craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- crazy paving — Crazy paving is pieces of stone of different shapes fitted together to make a path or flat area.
- 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
- 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
- cypress pine — any coniferous tree of the Australian genus Callitrus, having leaves in whorls and yielding valuable timber: family Cupressaceae
- cypress vine — a tropical American convolvulaceous climbing plant, Ipomoea pennata, having finely divided compound leaves and scarlet or white tubular flowers
- cyprinodonts — Plural form of cyprinodont.
- day-tripping — to travel as a day-tripper.
- dehypnotized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehypnotize.
- depressingly — In a depressing manner.
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- dinner party — social gathering over evening meal
- disciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- drinks party — a cocktail party
- dry puddling — puddling in a furnace with a bottom of sand.
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- egyptian mau — a breed of medium-sized cat with a spotted coat of medium length
- 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.
- enhypostasia — personalities existing in union (Jesus Christ and God the Son)
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- entropically — By means of or in relation to entropy.
- entry permit — customs
- epoxylignane — (organic chemistry) Any lignane in which the two \u03b3-carbon atoms of the side chains are linked via an oxygen atom to form a tetrahydrofuran ring.
- eriskay pony — a breed of medium-sized pony, typically grey, with a dense waterproof coat. The Eriskay is the only surviving variety of the native ponies of the Western Isles of Scotland
- erythropenia — A decrease in the number of erythrocytes, associated with anemia.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- euphoniously — In a euphonious manner.
- exemplifying — Present participle of exemplify.
- expansionary — (of a policy or action) intended to result in economic or political expansion.
- explain away — If someone explains away a mistake or a bad situation they are responsible for, they try to indicate that it is unimportant or that it is not really their fault.
- film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
- fippenny bit — the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- firing party — a military detachment detailed to fire a salute at a funeral
- fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
- glycoprotein — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
- gymnosophist — one of a group of Jainist philosophers, existing from ancient times to c1000, characterized by refusal to wear clothes and the abandonment of caste marks; a member of the Digambara sect.
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for