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13-letter words containing p, a, e, r, m

  • 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
  • preprogrammed — to program in advance: to preprogram a manufacturing process.
  • pretournament — occurring prior to a tournament
  • primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
  • 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 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 xylem — xylem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
  • primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
  • prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
  • privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
  • 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.
  • problem state — IBM jargon for user mode, the opposite of "supervisor state". On IBM System 360, 370 and 390 mainframes privileged instructions may only be executed in "supervisor state". Application programs request the operating system to perform these operations by using the Supervisor Call (SVC) instruction.
  • problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • 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.
  • prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
  • protest march — public demonstration
  • protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
  • proto-elamite — the indigenous script of Elam, found on inscriptions and tablets from the fourth millennium b.c.
  • proverbialism — a proverbial expression
  • 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.
  • quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
  • ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
  • 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
  • rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
  • raspberry jam — jam made using raspberries
  • reappointment — a fixed mutual agreement for a meeting; engagement: We made an appointment to meet again.
  • recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
  • recomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
  • reperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • representamen — (in semiotics) a sign or signifier, whether physical or otherwise, which points to an object
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
  • river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
  • rogue program — a computer virus
  • sample letter — an example of a particular type of letter intended to show people how to construct their own letter
  • sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
  • sauce supreme — suprême (def 1).
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
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