12-letter words containing s, p, e, r, m
- morphologies — Plural form of morphology.
- morris jesup — Cape, a cape of N Greenland, on the Arctic Ocean, 440 miles (710 km) from the North Pole: northernmost land point in the world.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- mucoproteins — Plural form of mucoprotein.
- multiplexers — Plural form of multiplexer.
- multipresent — able to be present in several places simultaneously
- multipurpose — able to be used for several purposes: a multipurpose lawn spray.
- mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
- mycoproteins — Plural form of mycoprotein.
- myringoscope — an instrument for examining the eardrum
- mystery play — a medieval dramatic form based on a Biblical story, usually dealing with the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
- n hemisphere — that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator
- necrophilism — necrophilia.
- nephrostomes — Plural form of nephrostome.
- nephrotomies — Plural form of nephrotomy.
- neurotropism — the quality of being neurotropic.
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- 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.
- numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- obcompressed — compressed or flattened in a way opposite to the usual, as back to front instead of side to side.
- oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- omnipresence — present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
- 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.
- optometrists — Plural form of optometrist.
- osmoreceptor — A sensory receptor, primarily found in the hypothalamus of most homeothermic organisms, that detects changes in osmotic pressure.
- over-promise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- overcompress — to compress, squeeze or condense excessively
- overemphasis — excessive or undue emphasis.
- overoptimism — a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- overoptimist — someone who is too optimistic
- overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- oversimplify — make too simple
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- pamperedness — the state of being pampered
- panspermatic — relating to panspermia
- 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.
- parasitaemia — the condition of having parasites in the blood
- pastry cream — a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc
- pearl primus — Pearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
- pedomorphism — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
- periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
- periselenium — the closest point of the orbit of a spacecraft to the moon
- perispomenon — (of a Greek word) bearing a circumflex accent on the last syllable
- peristomatic — surrounding a leaf's stoma or stomata