12-Letter Words Containing: O,E,M,P,T,I,O,N

• The formation of a complex

• Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms.

• Deriving from a single clade (monophylum).

• Descending from a single ancestral species.

• either one of a pair of compounds (crystals or molecules) that are mirror images on each other but are not identical

• To be more successful than a competitor; especially to thrive in the presence of an organism that is competing for resources

• a conjugated protein linked to a compound of iron and porphyrin

• a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell

• something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors

• the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

• a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers

• an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants

• the act of competing as for profit or a prize

• the contestant you hope to defeat