10-letter words containing a, m, p, e, r
- madrepores — Plural form of madrepore.
- madreporic — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
- magstripes — Plural form of magstripe.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- mainpernor — a person who gives a guarantee that a prisoner will appear in court
- map turtle — any of several aquatic turtles of the genus Graptemys, as G. geographica, of the eastern and central U.S., usually having yellow stripes on the head and neck.
- mareograph — marigraph.
- marker pen — a pen with a thick tip made of felt
- market cap — A market cap is the total market value of all the shares in a company.
- marprelate — Martin, the pen name of the anonymous author or authors of a series of satirical Puritan tracts (1588–89), attacking the bishops of the Church of England
- mascarpone — a very soft Italian cream cheese made from cow's milk.
- masspriest — a Roman Catholic priest
- masterplan — a general plan or program for achieving an objective.
- mastership — the office, function, or authority of a master.
- maupertuis — Pierre Louis Moreau de [pyer lwee maw-roh duh] /pyɛr lwi mɔˈroʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1698–1759, French mathematician, astronomer, and biologist.
- measure up — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- meatpacker — a person or company involved in the wholesale meat trade
- mecopteran — mecopterous.
- megaparsec — one million parsecs.
- megaspores — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
- melon pear — pepino (def 2).
- menlo park — a city in W California, near San Francisco.
- mercaptide — a metallic salt of a mercaptan.
- metacarpal — of or relating to the metacarpus.
- metacarpus — the part of a hand or forelimb, especially of its bony structure, included between the wrist, or carpus, and the fingers, or phalanges.
- metaphoric — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metaphrase — a literal translation.
- metaphrast — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- microphage — a small phagocytic cell in blood or lymph, especially a polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
- mimeograph — a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
- mobe pearl — mabe pearl.
- monopteral — having the form of a monopteron.
- morse lamp — a blinker lamp for signaling in Morse code.
- most-asper — harsh; rough.
- mousetraps — Plural form of mousetrap.
- mp3 player — a digital media player, usually portable, that plays and stores files in the MP3 format.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- multiparae — Plural form of multipara.
- myotherapy — A form of manual medicine focusing on the diagnosis, treatment and management of musculoskeletal pain.
- neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
- nitrazepam — a synthetic chemical compound belonging to the benzodiazepine group of drugs; a minor tranquillizer used mainly in sleeping tablets, such as Mogadon. Formula: C15H11N3O3
- omeprazole — a drug, C 17 H 19 N 3 O 3 S, that inhibits the formation of gastric acid, used in the treatment of peptic ulcers and gastroesophageal reflux disease.
- open frame — a frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or a spare.
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- palindrome — 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.
- palm grove — small forest of palm trees
- palmcorder — A palmcorder is a small video camera that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- palmerworm — the larva of a tineid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, of the eastern U.S., that feeds on the leaves of apple and other fruit trees.
- pan-german — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.