11-letter words containing m, e, p, r, i
- policy term — The policy term is the lifetime of an insurance policy.
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polymerizes — to subject to polymerization.
- polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- powder mill — a mill in which gunpowder is made.
- powerdomain — (theory) The powerdomain of a domain D is a domain containing some of the subsets of D. Due to the asymmetry condition in the definition of a partial order (and therefore of a domain) the powerdomain cannot contain all the subsets of D. This is because there may be different sets X and Y such that X <= Y and Y <= X which, by the asymmetry condition would have to be considered equal. There are at least three possible orderings of the subsets of a powerdomain: Egli-Milner: X <= Y iff for all x in X, exists y in Y: x <= y and for all y in Y, exists x in X: x <= y ("The other domain always contains a related element"). Hoare or Partial Correctness or Safety: X <= Y iff for all x in X, exists y in Y: x <= y ("The bigger domain always contains a bigger element"). Smyth or Total Correctness or Liveness: X <= Y iff for all y in Y, exists x in X: x <= y ("The smaller domain always contains a smaller element"). If a powerdomain represents the result of an abstract interpretation in which a bigger value is a safe approximation to a smaller value then the Hoare powerdomain is appropriate because the safe approximation Y to the powerdomain X contains a safe approximation to each point in X. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
- pragmatizer — someone who pragmatizes
- pramipexole — a dopamine agonist used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
- pre-adamite — a person supposed to have existed before Adam.
- pre-confirm — to make valid or binding by some formal or legal act; sanction; ratify: to confirm a treaty; to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court.
- pre-diploma — a document given by an educational institution conferring a degree on a person or certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed a course of study.
- pre-eminent — eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing: He is preeminent in his profession.
- pre-emption — the act or right of claiming or purchasing before or in preference to others.
- pre-emptive — of or relating to preemption.
- pre-homeric — of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
- pre-imposed — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- pre-islamic — existing prior to the ascendancy of Islam; pre-Muslim.
- pre-seminal — released before semen is ejaculated
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- precambrian — noting or pertaining to the earliest era of earth history, ending 570 million years ago, during which the earth's crust formed and life first appeared in the seas.
- predicament — an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.
- predominant — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominate — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- preeminence — the state or character of being preeminent.
- preemphasis — a process of increasing the amplitude of certain frequencies relative to others in a signal in order to help them override noise, complemented by deemphasis before final reproduction of the signal being received.
- preemptible — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
- preliminary — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- premarriage — (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.
- prematerial — the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed: Stone is a durable material.
- prematurity — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- premedicate — to administer preparatory medication to
- premedieval — prior to the Middle Ages.
- premeditate — to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand: to premeditate a murder.
- premier cru — See under cru.
- premiership — the head of the cabinet in France or Italy or certain other countries; first minister; prime minister.
- premodified — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- premonition — a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment: He had a vague premonition of danger.
- premonitive — of, or relating to, a premonition
- premonitory — giving premonition; serving to warn beforehand.
- premorbidly — pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
- premunition — Immunology. a state of balance between host and infectious agent, as a bacterium or parasite, such that the immune defense of the host is sufficient to resist further infection but insufficient to destroy the agent.
- prenominate — mentioned beforehand.
- preromantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- prestissimo — (a musical direction) in the most rapid tempo.
- presumingly — presumptuous.
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- preterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- prevailment — the action of prevailing