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10-letter words containing e, m, s, i

  • preimposed — imposed beforehand
  • premoisten — to moisten beforehand
  • presbytism — the condition of being affected by presbyopia
  • presentism — a partiality towards present-day points of view, esp by those interpreting history
  • press time — the time at which a pressrun begins, especially that of a newspaper.
  • presurmise — a surmise previously formed.
  • prime cost — that part of the cost of a commodity deriving from the labor and materials directly utilized in its manufacture.
  • prime ribs — a serving of the roasted ribs and meat from a prime cut of beef.
  • princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
  • problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
  • promissive — implying promise
  • proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
  • proseminar — a course conducted in the manner of a seminar for graduate students but often open to advanced undergraduates.
  • proskomide — prothesis (def 2a).
  • proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
  • proteomics — the study of the functions, structures, and interactions of proteins; the study of the proteome.
  • psalmodize — to sing psalms
  • psalterium — the omasum.
  • pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
  • ptolemaist — an adherent or advocate of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy.
  • pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
  • punishment — the act of punishing.
  • push media — (messaging)   A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
  • quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
  • race music — blues-based music or jazz by and for African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was regarded as a distinctive, separate market by the music industry; early jazz or rhythm-and-blues.
  • ramses iii — 1198–1167 b.c, king of ancient Egypt.
  • randomwise — in a random manner
  • ravishment — rapture or ecstasy.
  • re-baptism — a new or second baptism
  • re-immerse — to plunge into or place under a liquid; dip; sink.
  • recidivism — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
  • reestimate — to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately: to estimate the cost of a college education.
  • refugeeism — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
  • reichsmark — the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948. Compare Deutsche mark, mark2 (def 1), ostmark.
  • reimmersed — to plunge into or place under a liquid; dip; sink.
  • reimprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
  • relativism — any theory holding that criteria of judgment are relative, varying with individuals and their environments.
  • remanifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
  • remediates — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • remediless — not admitting of remedy, as disease, trouble, damage, etc.; unremediable.
  • reminisced — to recall past experiences, events, etc.; indulge in reminiscence.
  • reminiscer — someone who remembers or tells of past events or experiences
  • reminisces — to recall past experiences, events, etc.; indulge in reminiscence.
  • remissible — that may be remitted.
  • remissibly — in a remissible or forgivable manner
  • remissness — negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business, etc.: He's terribly remiss in his work.
  • removalist — a person or company that transports household effects to a new home
  • reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
  • resembling — to be like or similar to.
  • reshipment — the act of reshipping
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