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15-letter words containing a, l, i, m, p, r

  • metropolitanize — to make metropolitan.
  • microaerophiles — Plural form of microaerophile.
  • microaerophilic — Of, or relating to a microaerophile.
  • microphysically — in a microphysical manner
  • microscopically — so small as to be invisible or indistinct without the use of the microscope: microscopic organisms. Compare macroscopic.
  • military police — soldiers who perform police duties
  • mineral spirits — a volatile distillation product of petroleum, used as a thinner for paints and varnishes. Compare naphtha (def 1).
  • minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
  • moral turpitude — conduct that is regarded as immoral.
  • morphologically — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
  • mules operation — the surgical removal of folds of skin in the breech of a sheep to reduce blowfly strike
  • multiple factor — polygene.
  • multiple master — (text, tool, software)   (Or "Multiple Master Font") A font that is a mixture of two or more other fonts. A Multiple Master font is a single font containing from two to sixteen master designs (the current implementation limit). A weight factor specifies the contribution of each master design for the creation of a multiple master font instance. A Multiple Master instance is a single interpolation of a multiple master font as created by a user or application.
  • multum in parvo — much in a small space
  • municipal court — a court whose jurisdiction is confined to a city or municipality, with criminal jurisdiction usually corresponding to that of a police court and civil jurisdiction over small causes.
  • native compiler — (programming, tool)   A compiler which runs on the computer for which it is producing machine code, in contrast to a cross-compiler, which produces code for a different computer.
  • nil desperandum — never despair
  • nonexperimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
  • nonmetaphorical — not metaphorical; literal
  • nonmetropolitan — Not metropolitan.
  • over-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • palindromically — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • parallel motion — a mechanism arranged so as to impart rectilinear motion to a rod connected to a lever that moves through an arc.
  • parliamentarian — a person who is expert in the formal rules and procedures of deliberative assemblies and other formal organizations.
  • parliamentarily — in a parliamentary manner
  • pedestrian mall — A pedestrian mall is the same as a pedestrian precinct.
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • pharmacological — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
  • photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
  • pilgrimage site — a shrine or other sacred place that people travel to as an act of religious devotion
  • planimetrically — in a planimetric manner
  • plant-hire firm — a company that hires out mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • pleuropneumonia — pleurisy conjoined with pneumonia.
  • plural marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • polymorphically — in a polymorphic manner
  • polynomial ring — the set of all polynomials in an indeterminate variable with coefficients that are elements of a given ring.
  • portable pixmap — (file format)   (PPM) A colour image file format. A PPM file contains the following: a two character "{magic number}" - "P3", the width in pixels, the height in pixels, the maximum colour component value, HEIGHT rows of WIDTH {pixels}. The rows are ordered from top to bottom with the pixels in each row ordered from left to right. Each pixel is represented as three values for red, green, and blue. All parts are separated by whitespace and numbers are in decimal ASCIII representation. A zero pixel component means that colour is absent. Characters from a "#" to the next end-of-line are ignored and no line should be longer than 70 characters. Here is an example of a small pixmap in this format: P3 # feep.ppm 4 4 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A "RAWBITS" variant has magic number "P6", pixel values are stored as plain binary bytes, instead of ASCII decimal and no whitespace is allowed after a single whitespace character after the maximum colour component value which must be less than or equal to 255.
  • poststimulatory — following stimulation
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • power amplifier — an amplifier for increasing the power of a signal.
  • pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
  • predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
  • preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
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