12-letter words containing p, y, o, n, i
- injury-prone — often sustaining injuries
- intercompany — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- intracompany — occurring within a company, especially between employees or branches of the company.
- iontotherapy — (medicine) The therapeutic use of iontophoresis.
- ip telephony — (communications) (IPT, Internet Telephony) Use of IP data connections to exchange voice and fax data that have traditionally been carried over the public switched telephone network. During the late 1990s, an increasing number of telephone calls have been routed over the Internet. Calls made in this way avoid PSTN charges. Unlike traditional telephony, IP telephony is relatively unregulated. Companies providing these services are known as Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs). They include telephone companies, cable TV companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). There are still many problems with voice quality, latency, compression algorithms, and quality of service. See also Computer Telephone Integration.
- iron pyrites — pyrite; fool's gold.
- karyomapping — a technique for determining whether an embryo has inherited a genetic defect by analysing DNA taken from it and its close relatives
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
- long-playing — of or relating to microgroove records devised to be played at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute.
- lycanthropic — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- lymphangioma — a benign tumor composed of dilated and newly formed lymph vessels.
- lyophilizing — Present participle of lyophilize.
- manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- microcopying — the act of copying onto microfilm
- micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
- money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
- monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
- monophysites — Plural form of monophysite.
- monophysitic — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- monosynaptic — having or relating to a sole synapse
- monotriglyph — (in the Doric order) any intercolumniation having one whole triglyph.
- multipotency — (cytology, developmental biology) The ability of a progenitor cell to develop into a limited number of cell types.
- mycoproteins — Plural form of mycoprotein.
- myringoscope — an instrument for examining the eardrum
- neurotypical — relating to or showing typical neurological behavior and development: She has one dyslexic and one neurotypical child.
- non-pyogenic — producing or generating pus.
- noncomplying — the failure to comply; non-compliance
- nonphysician — a person who is not a physician
- nonpsychotic — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- nontyphoidal — of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.
- nyctitropism — tending to assume at or just before nightfall positions unlike those maintained during the day, as the leaves or flowers of certain plants.
- nympholeptic — an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
- nymphomaniac — a woman who has abnormally excessive and uncontrollable sexual desire.
- offputtingly — In an offputting manner.
- omnipotently — almighty or infinite in power, as God.
- onychophagia — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
- open primary — a direct primary election in which voters need not meet a test of party membership.
- opinionately — in a conceited or vain manner
- option money — the price paid for buying an option
- ornithophily — pollination of flowers by birds
- ornithoscopy — divination from the observation of birds
- palynologist — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
- pancytopenia — an abnormally low level of all blood cells
- pantisocracy — a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal
- paralyzation — to affect with paralysis.
- paranoically — in a paranoiac manner
- passion play — a dramatic representation of the passion of Christ, as that given every ten years at the Bavarian village of Oberammergau.
- passionately — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)