7-letter words containing n, i, m, p
- nipmuck — a member of an Algonquian Indian people living in the vicinity of Worcester, Mass.
- np time — nondeterministic polynomial time
- numpkin — a stupid person
- nymphic — relating to a nymph
- palming — the part of the inner surface of the hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
- panicum — any of the grasses in the genus Panicum, including panic grass
- pembina — highbush cranberry.
- pemican — dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.
- pentium — (processor) Intel's superscalar successor to the 486. It has two 32-bit 486-type integer pipelines with dependency checking. It can execute a maximum of two instructions per cycle. It does pipelined floating-point and performs branch prediction. It has 16 kilobytes of on-chip cache, a 64-bit memory interface, 8 32-bit general-purpose registers and 8 80-bit floating-point registers. It is built from 3.1 million transistors on a 262.4 mm^2 die with ~2.3 million transistors in the core logic. Its clock rate is 66MHz, heat dissipation is 16W, integer performance is 64.5 SPECint92, floating-point performance 56.9 SPECfp92. It is called "Pentium" because it is the fifth in the 80x86 line. It would have been called the 80586 had a US court not ruled that you can't trademark a number. The successors are the Pentium Pro and Pentium II. The following Pentium variants all belong to "x86 Family 6", as reported by "Microsoft Windows" when identifying the CPU: Model Name 1 Pentium Pro 2 ? 3 Pentium II 4 ? 5, 6 Celeron or Pentium II 7 Pentium III 8 Celeron uPGA2 or Mobile Pentium III A floating-point division bug was discovered in October 1994.
- permian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era occurring from about 280 to 230 million years ago and characterized by a profusion of amphibian species.
- pianism — the artistry and technique of a pianist.
- 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.
- pimento — pimiento.
- 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.
- plasmin — fibrinolysin.
- plenism — the philosophical theory that there are no vacuums in nature
- pluming — a feather.
- 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.
- pompion — a pumpkin
- primine — the outer integument of an ovule.
- priming — the most flourishing stage or state.
- promine — a substance promoting cell growth
- pumping — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
- pumpkin — a large, edible, orange-yellow fruit borne by a coarse, decumbent vine, Cucurbita pepo, of the gourd family.
- pycnium — a flask-shaped or conical sporangium of a rust fungus, which develops below the epidermis of the host and bears pycniospores.
- ramping — a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.
- rampion — a European bellflower, Campanula rapunculus, having an edible white tuberous root used in Europe for salad.
- shipman — a sailor.
- simplon — a mountain pass in S Switzerland, in the Lepontine Alps: crossed by a carriage road constructed 1800–06 on Napoleon's orders. 6592 feet (2010 meters) high.
- simpson — James Young, 1811–70, Scottish professor of obstetrics and obstetrician: pioneer in use of ether and chloroform as anesthetics.
- spumoni — an Italian style of ice cream of a very fine and smooth texture, usually containing layers of various colors and flavors and chopped fruit or nuts.
- tamping — to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes: He tamped the tobacco in his pipe.
- tampion — a plug or stopper placed in the muzzle of a piece of ordnance when not in use, to keep out dampness and dust.
- temping — temporary (def 2).
- timpana — a traditional Maltese baked pasta and pastry dish
- timpani — a set of kettledrums, especially as used in an orchestra or band.
- timpano — a kettledrum
- tompion — tampion.
- tympani — a set of kettledrums, especially as used in an orchestra or band.
- vamping — a seductive woman who uses her sensuality to exploit men.
- wimping — Present participle of wimp.