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9-letter words containing c, o, m, p, r

  • macro sap — Macro processing modification of SAP. D.E. Eastwood and D.M. McIlroy, unpublished memorandum, Bell Labs 1959. Led to TRAC.
  • macrocopy — an enlargement of printed material for easier reading
  • macropods — Plural form of macropod.
  • macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
  • macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
  • macrotape — (storage)   /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
  • mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
  • mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
  • mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
  • micro-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a very small market capitalization, usually under $250 million.
  • microchip — chip1 (def 5).
  • microcopy — a microphotographic copy of a printed page or the like, as in microfilm or microfiche.
  • micropore — a tiny opening, as in specialized biological filters or in the shells of some animals.
  • micropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
  • micropump — a tiny pump implanted under the skin for the timed administration of medication.
  • micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
  • microslop — (company, abuse)   A derisive synonym for Microsoft Corporation. It refers to the sloppy, bug-ridden "x.0" versions of MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft products.
  • microtape — (hardware, storage)   /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
  • monocarps — Plural form of monocarp.
  • morphemic — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
  • morphinic — of, pertaining to, or resembling morphine
  • morphotic — (biology) Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework.
  • operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  • panoramic — an unobstructed and wide view of an extensive area in all directions.
  • paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
  • perciform — a perch-like fish
  • pharmaco- — indicating drugs
  • picometer — one trillionth of a meter
  • picometre — a trillionth fraction of metre
  • pictogram — pictograph.
  • piroxicam — a white crystalline solid substance, C 1 5 H 1 3 N 3 O 4 S, used in the symptomatic treatment of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and other musculoskeletal disorders.
  • pisciform — shaped like a fish.
  • placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
  • pock-mark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
  • polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
  • polymeric — of or relating to a polymer.
  • porogamic — pertaining to or designating porogamy
  • poromeric — any of various microporous synthetic materials used as leather substitutes.
  • power mac — (computer)   Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
  • preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
  • premosaic — of the period before Moses
  • princedom — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
  • procambia — plant part in stem and root
  • promachos — a defender or champion
  • prometric — in favour of the metric system
  • promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
  • proteomic — relating to a proteome
  • proxemics — Sociology, Psychology. the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
  • puromycin — a substance with antibiotic properties, obtained from certain species of Streptomyces
  • pyodermic — relating to a skin disease characterized by the production of pus
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