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

  • pre-assumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
  • pre-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
  • pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • pre-intimation — to indicate or make known indirectly; hint; imply; suggest.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • precision-made — made to precise specifications
  • predeterminate — determined beforehand; predetermined.
  • 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.
  • preprogramming — the action of programming a computer in advance
  • presentimental — expressing a presentiment
  • presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
  • pretermination — of the period before termination (esp of employment)
  • primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
  • 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 accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
  • 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 growth — growth in vascular plants, especially an increase in length, that results from cell division and differentiation of an apical meristem.
  • 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 mirror — the mirror that collects and focuses the incoming light in a reflecting telescope
  • 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.
  • primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
  • primary stress — primary accent.
  • primary tissue — any tissue resulting directly from differentiation of an apical meristem.
  • primatological — relating to primatology
  • prime meridian — the meridian running through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned.
  • prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
  • printed matter — any of various kinds of printed material that qualifies for a special postal rate.
  • printer's mark — a stamp or device, usually found on the copyright page, that identifies a book as the work of a particular printer.
  • printer's ream — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
  • printing frame — a shallow, boxlike device with a glass plate on one side and an opaque, removable back, for holding a negative firmly against printing paper in contact printing.
  • pripet marshes — the largest swamp in Europe, occupying S Belarus and N Ukraine
  • private income — econ: from outside employment
  • private member — (sometimes lowercase) British. a member of a legislative body, especially of the House of Commons, who has no special duties and is not a member of the ministry.
  • probabiliorism — the theory that in the case of doubt one should choose the action most likely to be right
  • procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
  • proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
  • progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
  • proletarianism — the practices, attitudes, or social status of a proletarian.
  • promenade tile — a machine-made, unglazed, ceramic floor tile.
  • pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
  • proto-germanic — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
  • proxy marriage — a marriage performed between one of the two contracting parties and a proxy who has been authorized to represent the other.
  • 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.
  • put a crimp in — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
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