6-letter words containing m, p, i
- passim — so throughout: used especially as a footnote to indicate that a word, phrase, or idea recurs throughout the book being cited.
- paynim — a pagan or heathen.
- pc-ism — /P-C-izm/ A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like, e.g. by busy-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory or using hard timing loops. Compare ill-behaved, vaxism, Unixism.
- pcmcia — (body, standard) Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. (Or People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms).
- permic — a subfamily of Finnic, comprising the modern languages Udmurt and Komi, spoken in northeastern European Russia, and fragmentary attestations of an earlier language (Old Permic) dating from the 15th century.
- permie — a person, esp an office worker, employed by a firm on a permanent basis
- permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- pieman — a seller of pies
- pigman — a male pig farmer
- pileum — the top of the head of a bird, from the base of the bill to the nape.
- piment — wine flavoured with spices and honey
- pimola — an olive stuffed with red sweet pepper; stuffed olive.
- pimped — a person, especially a man, who solicits customers for a prostitute or a brothel, usually in return for a share of the earnings; pander; procurer.
- pimple — a small, usually inflammatory swelling or elevation of the skin; papule or pustule.
- pimply — having many pimples.
- pithom — one of the two cities built by Israelite slaves in Egypt. Ex. 1:11.
- pitman — a person who works in a pit, as in coal mining.
- pixmap — (Contraction of "pixel map"). A 3 dimensional array of bits corresponding to a 2 dimensional array of pixels. It is used, for example, in the X Window System to describe a memory region where graphics can be drawn without affecting the screen. Typically this is used for the efficient handling of expose events, icon images or for animation. Compare bitmap.
- podium — a small platform for the conductor of an orchestra, a public speaker, the recipient of a sports medal, etc.
- pommie — a British person, especially one who is a recent immigrant.
- porism — a type of mathematical proposition considered by Euclid, the meaning of which is now obscure. It is thought to be a proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions
- prelim — preliminary.
- premix — Also, premixture [pree-miks-cher] /priˈmɪks tʃər/ (Show IPA). a mixture of ingredients, made before selling, using, etc.: The chain saw runs on a premix of oil and gasoline.
- primal — first; original; primeval: primal eras before the appearance of life on earth.
- primed — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- primer — the most flourishing stage or state.
- primly — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- primus — Scottish Episcopal Church. a bishop who is elected to represent the church body and to summon and preside at synods but who possesses no metropolitan power.
- pumice — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- purism — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- pyemia — a diseased state in which pyogenic bacteria are circulating in the blood, characterized by the development of abscesses in various organs.
- rimple — a wrinkle.
- scampi — a large shrimp or prawn.
- scrimp — to be sparing or frugal; economize (often followed by on): They scrimped and saved for everything they have. He spends most of his money on clothes, and scrimps on food.
- shrimp — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- simpac — Early simulation language with fixed time steps. "Simpac User's Manual", R.P. Bennett et al, TM-602/000/000, Sys Devel Corp, Apr 1962.
- simpai — a long-tailed monkey native to Sumatra
- simpas — Event scheduling language, implemented as Pascal preprocessor. "SIMPAS - A Simulation Language Based on Pascal", R.M. Bryant in Proc 1980 Winter Sim Conf, T.I Oren et al eds, pp.559-572.
- simper — to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.
- simple — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- simply — in a simple manner; clearly and easily.
- skimpy — lacking in size, fullness, etc.; scanty: a skimpy hem; a skimpy dinner.
- sumpit — in Malaysia, a long wooden blowpipe, from which poison-tipped or barbed darts are blown, used primarily for hunting
- umpire — a person selected to rule on the plays in a game.
- uptime — the time during which a machine or piece of equipment, as a computer, is operating or can be operated.
- wimped — Simple past tense and past participle of wimp.
- wimper — Misspelling of whimper.
- wimple — a woman's headcloth drawn in folds about the chin, formerly worn out of doors, and still in use by some nuns.
- yumpie — a young, well-educated person who has a professional career and aspires to a higher social and economic status; yuppie.