12-letter words containing u, n, m
- on your mark — a command given to runners in a race to prepare themselves at the starting line
- on your mind — If something is on your mind, you are worried or concerned about it and think about it a lot.
- open-mouthed — having the mouth open.
- opendocument — (file format, standard) (ODF, ISO/IEC 26300, OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) An XML file format for office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations, databases and word processing. OpenDocument was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium. It is based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite. OpenDocument is an open standard, i.e. freely available and implementable. Compare OOXML.
- order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
- original gum — See o.g (def 1).
- ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
- osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
- oto-manguean — a family of American Indian languages spoken in central and southern Mexico, including Mixtec, Zapotec, and Otomi.
- outcompeting — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
- outmanoeuvre — British. outmaneuver.
- outmigration — to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.
- outmodedness — The condition of being outmoded.
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- outplacement — counseling and assistance in finding a new job, provided by a company for an employee who has been or is about to be dismissed.
- overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
- overdocument — to document excessively
- paludamentum — a cloak worn by officials and military officers of ancient Rome, especially during wartime.
- pama-nyungan — a family of Australian aboriginal languages, the most widespread within the Australian group of languages.
- panhellenium — an institution founded by the Roman Emperor Hadrian idealizing Greece's Classical history
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- pen computer — a computer, as a personal digital assistant, having pattern-recognition software enabling it to read handwritten text or drawings input on the screen by means of a stylus.
- pericementum — periodontal membrane.
- perinephrium — the capsule of connective tissue that envelops the kidney.
- periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- periselenium — the closest point of the orbit of a spacecraft to the moon
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- phone number — of individual, business
- plenum cable — (hardware) Cable that can be (legally) installed in the plenum (the space between a ceiling and the floor above it). Such cable is (usually) teflon-coated so that it will not give off toxic fumes when burned. In some parts of the world such cable is required by law.
- plum pudding — a rich steamed or boiled pudding containing raisins, currants, citron, spices, etc.
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
- pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
- pneumatology — Theology. doctrine concerning the Holy Spirit. the belief in intermediary spirits between humans and God.
- pneumococcal — a bacterium, Diplococcus pneumoniae, causing lobar pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, as pericarditis and meningitis.
- pneumococcus — a bacterium, Diplococcus pneumoniae, causing lobar pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, as pericarditis and meningitis.
- pneumocystis — any protozoan of the genus Pneumocystis, esp P. carinii, which is a cause of pneumonia in people whose immune defences have been lowered by drugs or a disease
- pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
- pneumonology — the study of the respiratory system
- pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
- poison sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus vernix (or Toxicodendron vernix), of swampy areas of the eastern U.S., having pinnate leaves and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to it.
- port hueneme — a city in S California.
- postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- postliminium — postliminy.
- postliminous — occurring after; subsequent
- prejudgement — to judge beforehand.