13-letter words containing n, a, r, m, e
- placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
- plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
- plasma screen — A plasma screen is a type of thin television screen or computer screen that produces high-quality images.
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- pneumatometer — an instrument for measuring either the quantity of air inhaled or exhaled during a single inspiration or expiration or the force of inspiration or expiration.
- pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- porte-monnaie — a purse or pocketbook
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- posttreatment — an act or manner of treating.
- praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
- pre-agreement — the act of agreeing or of coming to a mutual arrangement.
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
- pre-placement — the act of an employment office or employer in filling a position.
- preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
- preattachment — an act of attaching or the state of being attached.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- preliminarily — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- premeditation — an act or instance of premeditating.
- premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- premillennial — of or relating to the period preceding the millennium.
- prenomination — the act of naming in advance of a formal nomination
- pretournament — occurring prior to a tournament
- primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- promised land — Heaven.
- pronominalize — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
- protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- purple martin — a large American swallow, Progne subis, the male of which is blue-black.
- 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.
- quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
- quartodeciman — one of a group of early Christians who observed Easter on the day of the Jewish Passover regardless of whether or not it was Sunday
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
- random number — pseudorandom number
- random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
- random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population