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14-letter words containing i, m, p, o, r

  • polar maritime — a type of cold, wet air mass originating at high latitudes over ocean areas
  • polyacrylamide — a white, solid, water-soluble polymer of acrylamide, used in secondary oil recovery, as a thickening agent, a flocculant, and an absorbent, and to separate macromolecules of different molecular weights.
  • polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
  • port coquitlam — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, E of Vancouver.
  • post-modernism — Post-modernism is a late twentieth century approach in art, architecture, and literature which typically mixes styles, ideas, and references to modern society, often in an ironic way.
  • post-modernist — A post-modernist is a writer, artist, or architect who is influenced by post-modernism.
  • postdeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, including ordinal and cardinal numbers, that may be placed after an article or other determiner and before a descriptive adjective, as first and three in the first three new chapters.
  • postmastership — the office or position of a postmaster
  • postretirement — relating to or occurring in the period after retirement
  • potentiometric — a device for measuring electromotive force or potential difference by comparison with a known voltage.
  • pour le merite — for merit.
  • powdery mildew — any of various parasitic fungi of the ascomycete order Erysiphales, which produce a powderlike film of mycelium on the surface of host plants.
  • pragmatization — the action of putting theory into practice, the process of rendering something more pragmatic
  • pre-assumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
  • pre-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
  • pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • pre-intimation — to indicate or make known indirectly; hint; imply; suggest.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • precision-made — made to precise specifications
  • precompetitive — in marketing, designating or occurring during the stage prior to the completion of development of a product, when companies collaborate rather than compete
  • precompression — the act of compressing.
  • preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • premium income — An insurer's premium income is the income that it earns from premiums.
  • preprogramming — the action of programming a computer in advance
  • presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
  • pretermination — of the period before termination (esp of employment)
  • primary colour — Primary colours are basic colours that can be mixed together to produce other colours. They are usually considered to be red, yellow, blue, and sometimes green.
  • primary growth — growth in vascular plants, especially an increase in length, that results from cell division and differentiation of an apical meristem.
  • primary mirror — the mirror that collects and focuses the incoming light in a reflecting telescope
  • primary phloem — phloem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
  • primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
  • primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
  • primatological — relating to primatology
  • prime computer — (company)   (Or "Pr1ME") A minicomputer manufacturer.
  • private income — econ: from outside employment
  • probabiliorism — the theory that in the case of doubt one should choose the action most likely to be right
  • procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
  • proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
  • processor time — (software)   The amount of time a process takes to run, given that it has exclusive and uninterrupted use of the CPU. Note that in a modern computer, this would be very unusual, and so the processor time calculation for most processes involves adding up all the small amounts of time the CPU actually spends on the process. Some systems break processor time down into user time and system time. Compare wall clock time.
  • progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
  • progressionism — a person who believes in progress, as of humankind or society.
  • proletarianism — the practices, attitudes, or social status of a proletarian.
  • promenade tile — a machine-made, unglazed, ceramic floor tile.
  • prominent moth — any moth of the family Notodontidae characterized by tufts of scales on the back edge of the forewing that stand up prominently at rest and give the group its name. It includes the puss moth and buff-tip as well as those with prominent in the name
  • pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
  • proportionment — the act of proportioning.
  • proto-germanic — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
  • protogeometric — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece chiefly during the 10th century b.c. and characterized by use of abstract geometrical motifs.
  • proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
  • proximity fuze — a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.
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