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8-letter words containing m, a, p, r

  • mariposa — any lily of the genus Calochortus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having tuliplike flowers of various colors.
  • mariupol — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
  • marry up — to join
  • marsport — a spoilsport
  • marsupia — Plural form of marsupium.
  • marzipan — a confection made of almonds reduced to a paste with sugar and often molded into various forms, usually diminutive fruits and vegetables.
  • megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
  • mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
  • mericarp — one of the carpels of a schizocarp.
  • mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
  • metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
  • microamp — One millionth ( 10-6 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as \u00b5A.
  • microcap — (US, finance) The stock of a public company with a market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.
  • micropia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
  • milarepa — (tool)   A Perl BNF parser generator by Jeffrey Kegler <[email protected]>. Milarepa takes a source grammar written in a mixture of BNF and Perl and generates Perl source, which, when enclosed in a simple wrapper, parses the language described by the grammar. Milarepa is not restricted to LRn grammars, and the parse logic follows directly from the BNF. It handles ambiguous grammars, ambiguous tokens (tokens which were not positively identified by the lexer) and allows the programmer to change the start symbol. The grammar may not be left recursive. The input must be divided into sentences of a finite maximum length. There is no fixed distinction between terminals and non-terminals, that is, a symbol can both match the input AND be on the left hand side of a production. Multiple Marpa grammars are allowed in a single Perl program. Version: Prototype 1.0. Posted to comp.lang.perl. The author is seeking an FTP site to hold the software.
  • minipark — pocket park.
  • misparse — To parse incorrectly.
  • moldwarp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
  • momparas — Plural form of mompara.
  • monocarp — a plant that dies after having once borne fruit.
  • mopboard — baseboard (def 1).
  • myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
  • myriapod — any arthropod of the group Myriapoda, having an elongated segmented body with numerous paired, jointed legs, formerly classified as a class comprising the centipedes and millipedes.
  • namedrop — Alternative spelling of name-drop.
  • napiform — round at the top and tapering sharply below; turnip-shaped, as a root.
  • off-ramp — an exit lane for traffic from a turnpike or freeway to a street.
  • optogram — (physiology) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple.
  • p marker — phrase marker.
  • paliform — resembling a stake
  • palmgren — Selim [sel-im,, sey-lim;; Finnish se-lim] /ˈsɛl ɪm,, ˈseɪ lɪm;; Finnish ˈsɛ lɪm/ (Show IPA), 1878–1951, Finnish pianist and composer.
  • pampered — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
  • pamphrey — a cabbage
  • panorama — an unobstructed and wide view of an extensive area in all directions.
  • parabema — an architectural feature of an Orthodox church
  • paradigm — Grammar. a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme. a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.
  • paraform — a white, crystalline polymer of formaldehyde, (HCOH) n , from which it is obtained by evaporation of the aqueous solution: used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • paragram — a play on words; a pun
  • parament — a decoration for a room, as a tapestry.
  • paramese — a note in ancient Greek music, the note above the mese
  • paramita — any of the practices prescribed for one aspiring to nirvana.
  • paramour — an illicit lover, especially of a married person.
  • parmesan — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
  • paroemia — a proverb; an axiom
  • paronymy — a play on words
  • parosmia — a disorder of the sense of smell, especially the perception of odors that are not present.
  • paroxysm — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
  • partyism — adherence to a political party or organization.
  • passmore — George. Born 1943, a British artist who is noted esp for his photomontages and performance works with Gilbert Proesch
  • pastrami — a brisket of beef that has been cured in a mixture of garlic, peppercorns, sugar, coriander seeds, etc., then smoked before cooking.
  • patronym — patronymic (defs 3, 4).
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