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12-letter words that end in sm

  • 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.
  • orthotropism — Botany. orthotropic tendency or growth.
  • overoptimism — a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
  • paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
  • 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
  • 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
  • paramorphism — the process by which a paramorph is formed.
  • parapsychism — the experience of mental phenomena that are beyond the scope of normal physical explanation
  • parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
  • parochialism — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
  • patristicism — the study or science of the Fathers
  • pedomorphism — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
  • permissivism — lenience toward or indulgence of a wide variety of social behavior.
  • 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
  • philistinism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
  • philosophism — spurious or deceitful philosophy.
  • photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • phototropism — phototropic tendency or growth.
  • pictorialism — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
  • pleiotropism — the condition of a gene affecting more than one characteristic of the phenotype
  • pleomorphism — existence of an organism in two or more distinct forms during the life cycle; polymorphism.
  • pollyannaism — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
  • polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
  • polymorphism — the state or condition of being polymorphous.
  • post-fordism — the idea that modern industrial production has moved away from mass production in huge factories, as pioneered by Henry Ford, towards specialized markets based on small flexible manufacturing units
  • practicalism — devotion to practical matters.
  • pragmaticism — the pragmatist philosophy of C. S. Peirce, chiefly a theory of meaning: so called by him to distinguish it from the pragmatism of William James.
  • precisionism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
  • presenteeism — the practice of coming to work despite illness, injury, anxiety, etc., often resulting in reduced productivity.
  • pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
  • propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
  • propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
  • prosyllogism — a syllogism the conclusion of which is used as a premise of another syllogism; any of the syllogisms included in a polysyllogism except the last.
  • psychologism — emphasis upon psychological factors in the development of a theory, as in history or philosophy.
  • psychoticism — the state of being psychotic
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • rheomorphism — the liquefaction of rock, which results in its flowing and intruding into surrounding rocks
  • saltationism — any of several theories holding that the evolution of species proceeds in major steps by the abrupt transformation of an ancestral species into a descendant species of a different type, rather than by the gradual accumulation of small changes.
  • samaritanism — an inhabitant of Samaria.
  • saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
  • scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
  • secessionism — a person who secedes, advocates secession, or claims secession as a constitutional right.
  • sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
  • sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
  • sensationism — a theory of psychology maintaining that experience consists solely of sensations.
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