10-letter words containing m, e, i, s, t, r
- nutriments — Plural form of nutriment.
- opisometer — an instrument used to measure curved lines on a map
- osmeterium — a glandular process on the first thoracic segment of many caterpillars that emits a noxious odor to ward off predators.
- osmometric — Relating to osmometry.
- outpromise — to promise more than
- passimeter — a turnstile attached to a ticket booth or ticket machine
- pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
- pentaprism — a prism that has five faces, a pair of which are at 90° to each other; a ray entering one of the pair emerges from the other at an angle of 90° to its original direction: used especially in single-lens reflex cameras to reverse images laterally and reflect them to the viewfinder.
- periosteum — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- perishment — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- phragmites — any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).
- premoisten — to moisten beforehand
- presbytism — the condition of being affected by presbyopia
- presentism — a partiality towards present-day points of view, esp by those interpreting history
- press time — the time at which a pressrun begins, especially that of a newspaper.
- prime cost — that part of the cost of a commodity deriving from the labor and materials directly utilized in its manufacture.
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- proteomics — the study of the functions, structures, and interactions of proteins; the study of the proteome.
- psalterium — the omasum.
- pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
- quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
- ravishment — rapture or ecstasy.
- re-baptism — a new or second baptism
- reestimate — to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately: to estimate the cost of a college education.
- relativism — any theory holding that criteria of judgment are relative, varying with individuals and their environments.
- remanifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- remediates — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- removalist — a person or company that transports household effects to a new home
- reshipment — the act of reshipping
- resignment — the act of resigning; resignation
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- resumptive — that summarizes: a resumptive statement.
- retransmit — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- retreatism — the rejection of culturally prescribed goals and the conventional means for attaining them.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rheumatism — any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness.
- ringmaster — a person in charge of the performances in a circus ring.
- samarskite — a velvet-black mineral, a complex columbate-tantalate of uranium, cerium, etc., occurring in masses: a minor source of uranium, thorium, and rare-earth oxides.
- sclerotium — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- self-timer — a mechanism in a camera that operates a delay between the operation of the shutter release and the opening of the shutter, enabling the photographer to be included in the photograph
- semestrial — (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.
- semidesert — an extremely dry area characterized by sparse vegetation.
- semisecret — partly but not fully secret
- semiterete — terete on one side only; round on one side but flat on the other
- separatism — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
- serve time — be in prison
- sestertium — a money of account of ancient Rome, equal to 1000 sesterces.
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- shirtmaker — a person who makes shirts.