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12-letter words containing t, o, r, m, i, n

  • proclamation — something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
  • prom monitor — (operating system)   a small program stored in PROM (or ROM), responsible for both loading the OS and providing some means to analyse OS crashes. It may also have some sort of user interface which can be used to examine and change the contents of memory, control the boot process (specifying arguments to the kernel, or changing where to look for the it), and so forth. The main difference between a PROM monitor and a bootstrap loader is that the PROM monitor regains control when the OS terminates. This may enable a wizard to find out what went wrong if the OS crashed, although it is usually of little help for the average sysadmin.
  • promethazine — a phenothiaxine derivative, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 2 S, used for the symptomatic relief of allergies and in the management of motion sickness.
  • promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • protactinium — a radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Pa; atomic number: 91.
  • prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • provitamin a — carotene.
  • pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
  • puerto limon — Limón (def 2).
  • pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
  • racemization — the conversion of an optically active substance into an optically inactive mixture of equal amounts of the dextrorotatory and levorotatory forms.
  • radioelement — a radioactive element.
  • rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • ramification — the act or process of ramifying.
  • re-animation — to restore to life; resuscitate.
  • reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
  • receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
  • recommitment — to commit again.
  • redemptioner — an emigrant from Europe to America who obtained passage by becoming an indentured servant for a specified period of time.
  • reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
  • reestimation — judgment or opinion: In my estimation the boy is guilty.
  • reformatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • remote login — (networking)   A client-server program and protocol that provides an interactivel command line interface to a remote computer, using a protocol over a computer network, simulating a locally attached terminal.
  • remotivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
  • remuneration — the act of remunerating.
  • renomination — an act or instance of nominating, especially to office: The floor is open for nomination of candidates for the presidency.
  • retromingent — urinating backward because of bodily configuration: The lion is a retromingent animal.
  • rigid motion — any transformation, as a translation or rotation, of a set such that the distance between points is preserved.
  • risorgimento — the period of or the movement for the liberation and unification of Italy 1750–1870.
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • romantically — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
  • saint jerome — Saint (Eusebius Hieronymus) a.d. c340–420, Christian ascetic and Biblical scholar: chief preparer of the Vulgate version of the Bible.
  • saint moritz — a resort town in SE Switzerland: a popular center for winter sports. 6037 feet (1840 meters) high.
  • sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
  • satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • senarmontite — a mineral, antimony trioxide, Sb 2 O 3 , occurring in pearl-colored isometric octahedrons: a dimorph of valentinite.
  • sensitometer — an instrument for testing the sensitivity of various types of film, consisting of an apparatus for exposing successive parts of the film to a light of standard intensity at successively increasing lengths of exposure.
  • sensitometry — the science of determining the sensitivity of photographic materials.
  • sensorimotor — Psychology. of or relating to motor activity caused by sensory stimuli. Compare ideomotor.
  • serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
  • shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • sitting room — a small living room, often one that forms part of a suite in a hotel, private house, etc.
  • smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering
  • smotheringly — in a smothering manner
  • somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
  • somers point — a town in SE New Jersey.
  • stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things
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