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11-letter words containing p, a, r, c, m

  • prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
  • problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • proclaimant — someone who proclaims
  • proctodaeum — proctodeum.
  • project mac — (project)   A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its founding director was MIT Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood for Multiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, and Man and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts were Corbato's Multics development and Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAC hosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computer scientists to Cambridge to use CTSS and to discuss the future of computing. Funding for Project MAC was provided by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense. See also Early PL/I, MacLisp, MACSYMA, MDL, Multipop-68, OCAL.
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • pyramidical — pyramidal.
  • replacement — the act of replacing.
  • rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
  • roman peace — the establishment and maintenance of peace by armed force.
  • roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
  • scalpriform — chisel-shaped, as the incisors of certain rodents.
  • scrap metal — discarded metal
  • sparagmatic — denoting a type of Precambrian rock found in Scandinavia
  • spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.
  • speechmaker — a person who delivers speeches.
  • spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
  • spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
  • spermicidal — that kills sperm
  • stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
  • summer camp — a camp, especially one for children during the summer, providing facilities for sleeping and eating, and usually for handicrafts, sports, etc.
  • supremacist — a person who believes in or advocates the supremacy of a particular group, especially a racial group: a white supremacist.
  • symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
  • tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
  • tomographic — relating to tomography
  • unempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
  • unpragmatic — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
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