7-letter words containing m, i, p
- pianism — the artistry and technique of a pianist.
- picamar — a hydrocarbon oil extracted from beechwood tar
- pickmaw — a type of gull with a black head
- pietism — a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
- pigment — a dry insoluble substance, usually pulverized, which when suspended in a liquid vehicle becomes a paint, ink, etc.
- pikeman — a soldier armed with a pike.
- pilgrim — a person who journeys, especially a long distance, to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: pilgrims to the Holy Land.
- pimento — pimiento.
- pimp up — to make (someone or something, esp a car) more extravagantly decorated, as with flashy accessories, etc
- pimping — petty; insignificant; trivial.
- pinetum — an arboretum of pines and coniferous trees.
- pinkham — Lydia (Estes) 1819–83, U.S. businesswoman: manufactured patent medicine.
- pinworm — a small nematode worm, Enterobius vermicularis, infesting the intestine and migrating to the rectum and anus, especially in children.
- pismire — an ant.
- plagium — the crime of kidnapping a child
- plasmic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- plasmid — a segment of DNA independent of the chromosomes and capable of replication, occurring in bacteria and yeast: used in recombinant DNA procedures to transfer genetic material from one cell to another.
- plasmin — fibrinolysin.
- plenism — the philosophical theory that there are no vacuums in nature
- plumbic — containing lead, especially in the tetravalent state.
- pluming — a feather.
- plumist — a person who makes ornamental plumes
- pnambic — (jargon) /p*-nam'bik/ (From the scene in the film, "The Wizard of Oz" in which the true nature of the wizard is first discovered: "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"). A term coined by Daniel Klein <[email protected]> for a stage of development of a process or function that, owing to incomplete implementation or to the complexity of the system, requires human interaction to simulate or replace some or all of its actions, inputs or outputs. The term may also be applied to a process or function whose apparent operations are wholly or partially falsified or one requiring prestidigitization. The ultimate pnambic product was "Dan Bricklin's Demo", a program which supported flashy user-interface design prototyping. There is a related maxim among hackers: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." See magic for illumination of this point.
- polemic — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- pompeia — flourished 1st century b.c, second wife of Julius Caesar, divorced in 62 b.c. Compare Calpurnia, Cornelia (def 2).
- pompeii — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: it was buried along with Herculaneum by an eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; much of the city has been excavated.
- pompier — a conventional or imitative artist
- pompion — a pumpkin
- potamic — of or relating to rivers.
- preemie — an infant born prematurely; a preterm.
- prelim. — preliminary
- prelims — preliminary.
- premier — the head of the cabinet in France or Italy or certain other countries; first minister; prime minister.
- premise — Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- premiss — Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- premium — a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement, as to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc.
- pretrim — to trim in advance
- primacy — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- primage — a small allowance formerly paid by a shipper to the master and crew of a vessel for the loading and care of the goods: now charged with the freight and retained by the shipowner.
- primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- primate — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primely — excellently.
- primero — a card game fashionable in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- primers — a person or thing that primes.
- primest — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- primeur — anything (esp fruit or wine) produced early
- primine — the outer integument of an ovule.
- priming — the most flourishing stage or state.
- primmer — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- primsie — prim1 (def 1).