12-letter words containing nis
- opsonisation — Alternative form of opsonization.
- organisation — the act or process of organizing.
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- pan-asianism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance of all the Asian nations.
- panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- 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.
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- photo finish — a finish of a race in which two or more contestants are so close to the finish line that reference to a photograph of the finish is necessary to determine the winner.
- photo-finish — If the end of a race is a photo-finish, two or more of the competitors cross the finishing line so close together that a photograph of the finish has to be examined to decide who has won.
- porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
- postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- 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.
- precisionist — (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.
- prednisolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid, C 2 1 H 2 8 O 5 , used in various forms to treat inflammation and allergies and in the treatment of acute leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and lymphomas.
- pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
- radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
- 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.
- receptionist — a person employed to receive and assist callers, clients, etc., as in an office.
- 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.
- reductionist — 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.
- refurnishing — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- rejectionist — an Arab leader or country that opposes accommodation or compromise in negotiations with Israel.
- reminiscence — the act or process of recalling past experiences, events, etc.
- replenishing — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- retentionist — a person who advocates the retention of something, esp capital punishment
- reversionist — a person who advocates reverting to the conditions, customs, ideals, etc., of an earlier era.
- rock cornish — a small hybrid chicken produced by mating Cornish and White Rock chickens and marketed especially as a roaster.
- royal tennis — court tennis.
- 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.
- saltationist — a person who adheres to saltationism
- salvationist — a member of the Salvation Army.
- samaritanism — an inhabitant of Samaria.
- secessionism — a person who secedes, advocates secession, or claims secession as a constitutional right.
- secessionist — a person who secedes, advocates secession, or claims secession as a constitutional right.
- seclusionist — a person who prefers to be alone or secluded
- sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
- selectionist — a person who believes in natural selection
- semifinished — partially or almost finished.
- sensationism — a theory of psychology maintaining that experience consists solely of sensations.
- sensationist — someone who makes use of or creates sensation, esp a writer or actor
- sinisterness — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
- sinisterwise — in a leftwards direction
- sinistrality — the state or quality of having the left side or its parts or members different from and, usually, more efficient than the right side or its parts or members; left-handedness.
- sinistration — the quality or state of being left-handed.
- situationism — the theory that behavior is chiefly response to immediate situations.
- situationist — the theory that behavior is chiefly response to immediate situations.