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13-letter words containing l, a, r, i, m

  • polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
  • polyoma virus — a small DNA-containing virus, of the papovavirus group, that can produce a variety of tumors in mice, hamsters, rabbits, and rats.
  • polyribosomal — relating to a polyribosome
  • popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
  • pragmatically — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • pre-eclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
  • pre-eclamptic — a woman suffering from pre-eclampsia
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
  • predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
  • predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • preliminarily — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
  • premillennial — of or relating to the period preceding the millennium.
  • primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
  • primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
  • primary metal — metal derived directly from ore rather than from scrap.
  • primary xylem — xylem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
  • primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
  • primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
  • priority mail — (in the U.S. Postal Service) mail consisting of merchandise weighing more than 12 ounces sent at first-class rates.
  • prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
  • problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
  • pronominalize — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
  • proto-elamite — the indigenous script of Elam, found on inscriptions and tablets from the fourth millennium b.c.
  • proverbialism — a proverbial expression
  • provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
  • prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
  • purple martin — a large American swallow, Progne subis, the male of which is blue-black.
  • quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
  • quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
  • quarter-miler — an athlete who specializes in running the quarter mile or the 400 metres
  • quasimilitary — Having certain military aspects.
  • racial memory — feelings, patterns of thought, and fragments of experience that have been transmitted from generation to generation in all humans and have deeply influenced the mind and behavior.
  • radial motion — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
  • radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
  • radiotelegram — a message transmitted by radiotelegraphy.
  • railroad worm — the larva of a fruit fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, that burrows through apples, forming tunnels that sometimes appear on the skin as faint depressions or darkened trails: a serious pest of apples in colder regions of North America.
  • rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • rational form — a quotient of two polynomials with integral coefficients.
  • raw materials — Raw materials are materials that are in their natural state, before they are processed or used in manufacturing.
  • ray tomlinson — (person)   An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the first[?] electronic mail program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.
  • reacclimatize — to acclimatize or become acclimatized again
  • recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
  • recriminalize — to make punishable as a crime: To reduce the graffiti on subway cars, he wants to criminalize the selling of spray paint to minors.
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