13-letter words containing e, p, i, m
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
- progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- progressivism — the principles and practices of progressives.
- promised land — Heaven.
- pronominalize — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
- proper motion — Astronomy. the angular motion of a star relative to a suitably defined frame of reference, expressed in seconds of arc per year.
- protectionism — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
- proto-elamite — the indigenous script of Elam, found on inscriptions and tablets from the fourth millennium b.c.
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- pseudisodomic — (of ashlar) composed of stones having the same length, laid in courses of different heights.
- psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
- psychomimetic — psychotomimetic.
- psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
- pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- purple martin — a large American swallow, Progne subis, the male of which is blue-black.
- purple mombin — a tree, Spondias purpurea, of tropical America, having clusters of purple or greenish flowers and yellow or dark red fruit that is edible either raw or cooked.
- pyrheliometer — an instrument for measuring the total intensity of the sun's energy radiation.
- pyrimethamine — a potent substance, C 1 2 H 1 3 ClN 4 , used against susceptible plasmodia in the prophylactic treatment of malaria and against Toxoplasma gondi in the treatment of toxoplasmosis.
- pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
- queue-jumping — If you accuse someone of queue-jumping, you mean that they are trying to get to the front of a queue or waiting list unfairly.
- ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
- reappointment — a fixed mutual agreement for a meeting; engagement: We made an appointment to meet again.
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
- recompression — the act or process of compressing something again
- recomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- republicanism — republican government.
- respirometric — of or relating to respirometers or respirometry
- response time — Psychology. the time consumed in making a response.
- river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
- rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- second empire — the empire established in France (1852–70) by Louis Napoleon: the successor to the Second Republic.
- selenotropism — growth in response to moonlight.
- self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- semi-parasite — Biology. commonly parasitic but also capable of living on dead or decaying animal matter.
- semi-precious — Semi-precious stones are stones such as turquoises and amethysts that are used in jewellery but are less valuable than precious stones such as diamonds and rubies.
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semiempirical — partly empirical