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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
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