10-letter words containing e, p, i, m
- disempower — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disimprove — (transitive, rare) to make worse.
- dispermous — having two seeds.
- dopexamine — A \u03b21- and \u03b22-adrenergic receptor agonist.
- dove prism — a prism that inverts a beam of light, often used in a telescope to produce an erect image.
- duple time — characterized by two beats to the measure.
- dysphemism — the substitution of a harsh, disparaging, or unpleasant expression for a more neutral one.
- ecmascript — (language) (ECMA standard 262, ISO standard 16262) The standardised version of the core JavaScript language.
- emacs lisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp used to implement the higher layers of the Free Software Foundation's editor, GNU Emacs. Sometimes abbreviated to "elisp". An enormous number of Emacs Lisp packages have been written including modes for editing many programming languages and interfaces to many Unix programs.
- emancipate — Set free, esp. from legal, social, or political restrictions.
- emancipist — (Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree.
- embonpoint — The plump or fleshy part of a person’s body, in particular a woman’s bosom.
- emmetropia — The condition of perfect vision, where images are correctly brought to a focus on the retina.
- emmetropic — Pertaining to emmetropia.
- empaneling — Present participle of empanel.
- emparadise — to turn (a place or state) into a paradise
- empathetic — Showing empathy for others, and recognizing their feelings etc; empathic.
- empathised — Simple past tense and past participle of empathise.
- empathises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empathise.
- empathized — Simple past tense and past participle of empathize.
- empathizer — One who empathizes.
- empathizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empathize.
- emphasised — Simple past tense and past participle of emphasise.
- emphasises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emphasise.
- emphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of emphasize.
- emphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emphasize.
- emphatical — Emphatic.
- emphractic — medication that closes the pores of the skin
- emphysemic — Relating to emphysema.
- empire day — a former holiday celebrated in the British Empire on May 24, Queen Victoria's birthday
- empiricism — The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, expounded in particular by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.
- empiricist — An advocate or supporter of empiricism.
- empowering — Give (someone) the authority or power to do something.
- empurpling — Present participle of empurple.
- epagomenic — Intercalary.
- ephemeride — Of, pertaining to, or used in an ephemeris.
- ephemerids — Plural form of ephemerid.
- ephemerist — one who collects or studies ephemera
- ephraimite — a member of the tribe of Ephraim
- epicardium — A serous membrane that forms the innermost layer of the pericardium and the outer surface of the heart.
- epicentrum — the focus of an earthquake
- epicranium — (anatomy) The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.
- epidemical — Alternative form of epidemic.
- epidendrum — an orchid belonging to the Epidendrum genus
- epidermoid — Of, pertaining to or composed of epidermal tissue.
- epididymal — Of, in or pertaining to the epididymis, the tube in male mammals which connects the efferent ducts from the rear of each testicle to its vas deferens.
- epididymis — A highly convoluted duct behind the testis, along which sperm passes to the vas deferens.
- epigenomic — (genetics) Describing a representation of the gene expression, DNA methylation and histone modification status of a particular genomic region.
- epilimnion — The upper layer of water in a stratified lake.
- epimeletic — relating to altruistic behaviour in which a healthy animal cares for an injured, ill, or dead individual