15-letter words containing m, a, i, r
- phantom circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
- pharmacological — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
- phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
- photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
- photomicrograph — a photograph taken through a microscope.
- phrasemongering — the act of coining memorable phrases
- physical memory — (memory management) The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
- picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
- piece to camera — a TV report in which a reporter is filmed saying something
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- pilgrimage site — a shrine or other sacred place that people travel to as an act of religious devotion
- planimetrically — in a planimetric manner
- plant-hire firm — a company that hires out mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc
- platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
- platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
- pleuropneumonia — pleurisy conjoined with pneumonia.
- plural marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
- police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
- polymorphically — in a polymorphic manner
- polynomial ring — the set of all polynomials in an indeterminate variable with coefficients that are elements of a given ring.
- pontine marshes — an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failed
- portable pixmap — (file format) (PPM) A colour image file format. A PPM file contains the following: a two character "{magic number}" - "P3", the width in pixels, the height in pixels, the maximum colour component value, HEIGHT rows of WIDTH {pixels}. The rows are ordered from top to bottom with the pixels in each row ordered from left to right. Each pixel is represented as three values for red, green, and blue. All parts are separated by whitespace and numbers are in decimal ASCIII representation. A zero pixel component means that colour is absent. Characters from a "#" to the next end-of-line are ignored and no line should be longer than 70 characters. Here is an example of a small pixmap in this format: P3 # feep.ppm 4 4 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A "RAWBITS" variant has magic number "P6", pixel values are stored as plain binary bytes, instead of ASCII decimal and no whitespace is allowed after a single whitespace character after the maximum colour component value which must be less than or equal to 255.
- posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
- poststimulatory — following stimulation
- poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
- powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
- power amplifier — an amplifier for increasing the power of a signal.
- power macintosh — Power Mac
- pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
- prajna-paramita — a series of sutras dealing with the perfection of wisdom: systematized by the Madhyamikas.
- pre-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
- pre-romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
- predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
- preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
- preformationism — the belief in the theory of preformation
- preformationist — someone who advocates the theory of preformation
- preimplantation — relating to the period before implantation in the uterus
- premier danseur — the leading male dancer in a ballet company.
- premiere partie — (in buhl) the primary inlay formed, in which the tortoise shell forms the ground for a design cut in brass.
- premillennially — from a premillennial point of view
- premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
- presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
- presentationism — the doctrine that in perception, or in all forms of knowledge, there is an immediate awareness of the things perceived.
- preservationism — a person who advocates or promotes preservation, especially of wildlife, natural areas, or historical places.
- prima ballerina — the principal ballerina in a ballet company.
- primary contact — a communication or relationship between people that is characterized by intimacy and personal familiarity.
- primary feather — any of the flight feathers growing from the manus of a bird's wing
- primary insurer — A primary insurer is the insurance company that first sells insurance to a client, who later purchases reinsurance.