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13-letter words containing m, y

  • primary cache — (hardware, architecture)   (L1 cache, level one cache) A small, fast cache memory inside or close to the CPU chip. For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chip cache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level one cache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB data cache. The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected to the CPU via its external bus.
  • primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
  • primary group — a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.
  • primary metal — metal derived directly from ore rather than from scrap.
  • primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
  • primary tooth — one of the temporary teeth of a mammal that are replaced by the permanent teeth.
  • primary xylem — xylem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
  • primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
  • priority mail — (in the U.S. Postal Service) mail consisting of merchandise weighing more than 12 ounces sent at first-class rates.
  • prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
  • privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
  • pro-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
  • promiscuously — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
  • promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
  • prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
  • psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
  • psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
  • psychomimetic — psychotomimetic.
  • psychosomatic — of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.
  • psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
  • pusillanimity — the state or condition of being pusillanimous; timidity; cowardliness.
  • put it mildly — You use to put it mildly to indicate that you are describing something in language that is much less strong, direct, or critical than what you really think.
  • pycnoconidium — a pycnidiospore
  • pyrheliometer — an instrument for measuring the total intensity of the sun's energy radiation.
  • pyrimethamine — a potent substance, C 1 2 H 1 3 ClN 4 , used against susceptible plasmodia in the prophylactic treatment of malaria and against Toxoplasma gondi in the treatment of toxoplasmosis.
  • pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
  • q-methodology — a statistical methodology used by psychologists to identify alternative world-views, opinions, interpretations, etc, in terms of statistically independent patterns of response recognized by clustering together individuals whose orderings of items, typically attitude statements, are similar
  • quantity mark — a mark that is placed above a vowel or syllable to indicate its duration or length
  • quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
  • quasimilitary — Having certain military aspects.
  • quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
  • r-methodology — any statistical methodology in psychology that is contrasted with Q-methodology
  • racial memory — feelings, patterns of thought, and fragments of experience that have been transmitted from generation to generation in all humans and have deeply influenced the mind and behavior.
  • rahimyar khan — a city in E Pakistan.
  • ramon y cajal — Santiago [sahn-tyah-gaw] /sɑnˈtyɑ gɔ/ (Show IPA), 1852–1934, Spanish histologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1906.
  • raspberry jam — jam made using raspberries
  • ray tomlinson — (person)   An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the first[?] electronic mail program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.
  • re-employment — an act or instance of employing someone or something.
  • recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
  • recovery room — a room near the operating or delivery room of a hospital, equipped with specific apparatus and staffed by specially trained personnel for emergencies, used for the recovery from anesthesia of a postoperative or obstetrical patient before being brought to a hospital room or ward.
  • recovery team — a team engaged in locating and retrieving bodies, cargo, etc, esp following a crash, explosion or natural disaster
  • reflectometry — the study or science of reflectometer usage and design
  • reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
  • refractometry — an instrument for determining the refractive index of a substance.
  • remarkability — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • remediability — the state of being able to be remedied
  • reminiscently — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
  • remonstrantly — in a remonstrant or opposing manner
  • remonstratory — characterized by protest or expostulation
  • remythologize — to mythologize anew, to make a new mythological system out of (an existing one)
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