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12-letter words containing s, a, m, p

  • newspaperism — anything characteristic of newspapers, esp a word or phrase used only by journalists
  • newspaperman — a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
  • newspapermen — a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
  • normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
  • nuptial mass — a special mass said at a wedding.
  • oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
  • omphaloscopy — Introversion.
  • operationism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
  • ophthalmitis — ophthalmia.
  • optic chiasm — a site at the base of the forebrain where the inner half of the fibers of the left and right optic nerves cross to the opposite side of the brain.
  • optimisation — Alternative spelling of optimization.
  • optimistical — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
  • overemphasis — excessive or undue emphasis.
  • pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
  • palimpsestic — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
  • palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • palm islands — a group of three man-made island systems under construction just off the shore in Dubai, each in the shape of a palm tree
  • palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
  • pampas grass — a tall, ornamental grass, Cortaderia selloana, native to South America, having large, thick, feathery, silvery-white panicles.
  • pamperedness — the state of being pampered
  • pan-asianism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance of all the Asian nations.
  • pan-islamism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
  • panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
  • pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
  • panspermatic — relating to panspermia
  • parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
  • paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • parallel sml — ["Parallel SML: A Functional Language and its Implementation in Dactl", Kevin Hammond, Pitman Press 1990].
  • parameterise — to describe (a phenomenon, problem, curve, surface, etc.) by the use of parameters.
  • paramorphism — the process by which a paramorph is formed.
  • paraphimosis — inability to retract the penis into the prepuce as a result of narrowing of the prepuce
  • parapsychism — the experience of mental phenomena that are beyond the scope of normal physical explanation
  • parasitaemia — the condition of having parasites in the blood
  • parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
  • parochialism — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
  • paronomastic — the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
  • parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
  • paschal lamb — Jewish History. a lamb slaughtered and eaten on the eve of the first day of Passover. Ex. 12:3–11.
  • pastry cream — a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc
  • patristicism — the study or science of the Fathers
  • pax vobiscum — peace be with you
  • pearl primusPearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
  • periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
  • peristomatic — surrounding a leaf's stoma or stomata
  • perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
  • persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
  • phantasmatic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • phosphamidon — a systemic and contact insecticide, C 1 0 H 1 9 ClNO 5 P, used against beetles, aphids, mites, and other crop pests.
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