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

  • peremptoriness — leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command.
  • permanent link — (web)   A URL that always points to the same piece of web content. Web pages that appear for a limited time at their main URL, such as web logs or news sites, often display an alternative, permanent link. Readers can quote, bookmark, or link to this URL in order to refer to a particular item, rather than the page displaying the latest item. For example, the URL http://news.bbc.co.uk/ points to the latest news from the BBC whereas http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/2614839.stm is a permanent link to a particular news story.
  • permissiveness — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
  • persian empire — Persia (def 1).
  • petty criminal — someone who commits petty crime or a petty crime
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • phantasmagoria — a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination.
  • phantasmagoric — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • pharmacopoeian — an individual who has expert knowledge of a pharmacopoeia
  • phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
  • pinhole camera — a simple camera in which an aperture provided by a pinhole in an opaque diaphragm is used in place of a lens.
  • pneumatic tire — wheel cover filled with pressurized air
  • pneumatic tyre — a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles
  • point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
  • polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pragmatization — the action of putting theory into practice, the process of rendering something more pragmatic
  • prayer meeting — a meeting chiefly for prayer.
  • praying mantis — mantis.
  • pre-assumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
  • pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • pre-experiment — occurring, existing, or implemented prior to beginning an experiment
  • pre-intimation — to indicate or make known indirectly; hint; imply; suggest.
  • pre-investment — the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
  • precision-made — made to precise specifications
  • precompression — the act of compressing.
  • predeterminate — determined beforehand; predetermined.
  • predeterminism — the belief that everything is predetermined
  • preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • preliminaries' — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • premillenarian — a believer in premillennialism.
  • premium income — An insurer's premium income is the income that it earns from premiums.
  • preprogramming — the action of programming a computer in advance
  • prerequirement — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
  • presentimental — expressing a presentiment
  • pretermination — of the period before termination (esp of employment)
  • primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
  • prime meridian — the meridian running through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned.
  • prime minister — the principal minister and head of government in parliamentary systems; chief of the cabinet or ministry: the British prime minister.
  • primenet, inc. — Arizona's Internet provider.
  • printed matter — any of various kinds of printed material that qualifies for a special postal rate.
  • printer's mark — a stamp or device, usually found on the copyright page, that identifies a book as the work of a particular printer.
  • printer's ream — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
  • printing frame — a shallow, boxlike device with a glass plate on one side and an opaque, removable back, for holding a negative firmly against printing paper in contact printing.
  • private income — econ: from outside employment
  • procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
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