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14-letter words containing a, l, r, m, i

  • patriarchalism — a philosophy, form, or system of patriarchal government.
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • perimeter wall — a wall that serves as a boundary around something
  • permaculturist — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
  • permanent link — (web)   A URL that always points to the same piece of web content. Web pages that appear for a limited time at their main URL, such as web logs or news sites, often display an alternative, permanent link. Readers can quote, bookmark, or link to this URL in order to refer to a particular item, rather than the page displaying the latest item. For example, the URL http://news.bbc.co.uk/ points to the latest news from the BBC whereas http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/2614839.stm is a permanent link to a particular news story.
  • petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
  • petty criminal — someone who commits petty crime or a petty crime
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • pharmaceutical — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
  • pharmacologist — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • pharmacopoeial — a book published usually under the jurisdiction of the government and containing a list of drugs, their formulas, methods for making medicinal preparations, requirements and tests for their strength and purity, and other related information.
  • pharmacopolist — a person who sells pharmaceutical products
  • pinhole camera — a simple camera in which an aperture provided by a pinhole in an opaque diaphragm is used in place of a lens.
  • plasmapheresis — a type of apheresis in which blood cells are returned to the bloodstream of the donor and the plasma is used, as for tranfusion.
  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
  • poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
  • point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
  • polar maritime — a type of cold, wet air mass originating at high latitudes over ocean areas
  • polyacrylamide — a white, solid, water-soluble polymer of acrylamide, used in secondary oil recovery, as a thickening agent, a flocculant, and an absorbent, and to separate macromolecules of different molecular weights.
  • polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
  • port coquitlam — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, E of Vancouver.
  • pre-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
  • pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • preliminaries' — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • premeditatedly — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
  • premier league — a professional football or soccer league consisting of the top teams in England and Wales
  • premillenarian — a believer in premillennialism.
  • presentimental — expressing a presentiment
  • primal therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to relive traumatic events, often screaming or crying, in order to achieve catharsis and a breakdown of psychological defenses.
  • primary colour — Primary colours are basic colours that can be mixed together to produce other colours. They are usually considered to be red, yellow, blue, and sometimes green.
  • primary letter — a lowercase character having neither a descender nor an ascender, as a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z.
  • primary phloem — phloem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
  • primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
  • primatological — relating to primatology
  • prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
  • probabiliorism — the theory that in the case of doubt one should choose the action most likely to be right
  • proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
  • proletarianism — the practices, attitudes, or social status of a proletarian.
  • promenade tile — a machine-made, unglazed, ceramic floor tile.
  • psilanthropism — the doctrine that Jesus Christ was only a human being.
  • pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  • pyramid letter — chain letter.
  • pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
  • pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
  • quadrupedalism — The condition of being a quadruped.
  • quadruple time — a measure consisting of four beats or pulses with accent on the first and third.
  • quasi-criminal — of the nature of or involving crime.
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