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11-letter words containing a, s, p, e, r, m

  • mesotherapy — a cosmetic procedure in which minute doses of medication, vitamins, etc, are injected repeatedly into the mesodermal tissue under the skin to promote fat loss
  • metacarpals — Plural form of metacarpal.
  • metanephros — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of higher vertebrates, becoming the permanent and functional kidney.
  • metaphorist — a creator or user of metaphors
  • metaphrased — Translated literally.
  • metaphrases — Plural form of metaphrase.
  • metaphrasis — a metaphrase
  • metaphrasts — Plural form of metaphrast.
  • microphages — Plural form of microphage.
  • mimeographs — Plural form of mimeograph.
  • mis-phrased — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
  • misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • misappraise — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
  • mispersuade — to persuade wrongly
  • mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • morse taper — a taper that is one of a standard series used in the shank of tools to fit a matching taper in the mandrel of a machine tool
  • museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
  • music paper — paper ruled or printed with a stave for writing music
  • palm desert — a town in S California, near Palm Springs.
  • panspermist — someone who advocates panspermia
  • parallelism — the position or relation of parallels.
  • parascenium — either of two wings flanking and extending forward from the skene of an ancient Greek theater.
  • pass muster — to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
  • passeriform — of or relating to the order Passeriformes; passerine.
  • past master — a person who is thoroughly experienced or exceptionally skilled in a profession, art, etc.: a past master at chess.
  • paternalism — the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president.
  • pentamerous — consisting of or divided into five parts.
  • perma-press — permanent-press.
  • peroxisomal — of or relating to a peroxisome; of the nature of a peroxisome
  • personalism — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
  • petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
  • phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • phariseeism — the principles and practices of the Pharisees.
  • phrasemaker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
  • phraseogram — a written symbol or combination of symbols, as in shorthand, used to represent a phrase.
  • plastometer — an instrument for measuring the plasticity of a substance.
  • pleinairism — pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
  • poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
  • polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
  • pre-islamic — existing prior to the ascendancy of Islam; pre-Muslim.
  • pre-seminal — released before semen is ejaculated
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • preassembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
  • preemphasis — a process of increasing the amplitude of certain frequencies relative to others in a signal in order to help them override noise, complemented by deemphasis before final reproduction of the signal being received.
  • prefreshman — before being a freshman
  • presagement — an omen
  • primariness — the state of being primary
  • primateship — primacy (def 2).
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
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