10-letter words containing m, a, r, i
- pre-climax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- preadamite — a person supposed to have existed before Adam.
- preceramic — noting or pertaining to a period or culture antedating the use of ceramics or pottery.
- premarital — preceding marriage.
- premaxilla — one of a pair of bones of the upper jaw of vertebrates, situated in front of and between the maxillary bones.
- premedical — of or relating to studies in preparation for the formal study of medicine: a premedical course.
- prenominal — being such in name only; so-called; putative: a nominal treaty; the nominal head of the country.
- preprimary — preceding a primary election: preprimary endorsement.
- priapismic — Pathology. continuous, usually nonsexual erection of the penis, especially due to disease.
- primaquine — a viscous liquid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O, used in the treatment of malaria.
- primarying — the mounting of a challenge to the incumbent in a primary election: There were many instances of primarying during the last election cycle.
- primaveral — of, in, or pertaining to the early springtime: primaveral longings to sail around the world.
- prime rate — the minimum interest rate charged by a commercial bank on short-term business loans to large, best-rated customers or corporations.
- primevally — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- primordial — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- printmaker — a person who makes prints, especially an artist working in one of the graphic mediums.
- prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
- prizewoman — a female prize winner
- pro-family — that favors or benefits families
- procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
- proclaimer — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- programing — the act or process of planning or writing a program.
- pronominal — Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
- prosaicism — prosaic character or style.
- proseminar — a course conducted in the manner of a seminar for graduate students but often open to advanced undergraduates.
- prostatism — symptoms of prostate disorder, especially obstructed urination, arising from benign enlargement or chronic disease of the prostate gland.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- provitamin — a substance that an organism can transform into a vitamin, as carotene, which is converted to vitamin A in the liver.
- proximally — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
- psalterium — the omasum.
- puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
- pyramidion — a miniature pyramid, as at the apex of an obelisk.
- pyramidist — an expert in the structure and history of the Egyptian pyramids
- pyromaniac — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- quadriform — having four parts or sides
- quadrireme — (in classical antiquity) a galley having four banks of oars.
- quadrivium — (during the Middle Ages) the more advanced division of the seven liberal arts, comprising arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.
- quadrumvir — a member of a quadrumvirate.
- quarkonium — a meson composed of a quark and an antiquark of the same flavor.
- quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
- race music — blues-based music or jazz by and for African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was regarded as a distinctive, separate market by the music industry; early jazz or rhythm-and-blues.
- racemation — a bunch, collection, or group
- racemiform — having the form of a raceme.
- rachiotomy — (surgery) The surgical procedure of cutting, or making an incision in a vertebra.
- rachmanism — extortion or exploitation by a landlord of tenants of dilapidated or slum property, esp when involving intimidation or use of racial fears to drive out sitting tenants whose rent is fixed at a low rate
- radicalism — the holding or following of radical or extreme views or principles.
- radiciform — resembling a root
- radio beam — beam (def 12).
- radio mast — transmission tower