10-letter words containing p, a, r, m, i
- improvable — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- incompared — incomparable; unmatched; unequalled
- ivory palm — the palm bearing the common ivory nut.
- kiloampère — one thousand amperes
- lampadaire — a pedestal of the Empire period for a lamp or candelabrum.
- linear map — (mathematics) (Or "linear transformation") A function from a vector space to a vector space which respects the additive and multiplicative structures of the two: that is, for any two vectors, u, v, in the source vector space and any scalar, k, in the field over which it is a vector space, a linear map f satisfies f(u+kv) = f(u) + kf(v).
- loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
- macroprism — a prism belonging to an orthorhombic crystal found between the macropinacoid and the unit prism
- madreporic — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
- magstripes — Plural form of magstripe.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- mainpernor — a person who gives a guarantee that a prisoner will appear in court
- mainspring — the principal spring in a mechanism, as in a watch.
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- mapinguari — Alternative form of mapinguary.
- mapinguary — A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.
- marigraphs — Plural form of marigraph.
- mark spitz — Mark (Andrew) born 1950, U.S. swimmer: winner of seven gold medals in 1972 summer Olympic Games.
- marsh pink — any of several eastern North American plants belonging to the genus Sabatia, of the gentian family, having rose-pink flowers.
- marsupials — Plural form of marsupial.
- masspriest — a Roman Catholic priest
- mastership — the office, function, or authority of a master.
- maupertuis — Pierre Louis Moreau de [pyer lwee maw-roh duh] /pyɛr lwi mɔˈroʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1698–1759, French mathematician, astronomer, and biologist.
- mercaptide — a metallic salt of a mercaptan.
- metaphoric — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- micrograph — an instrument for executing extremely minute writing or engraving.
- microphage — a small phagocytic cell in blood or lymph, especially a polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
- micropylar — Of or pertaining to micropyles.
- mimeograph — a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
- mimography — the representation of sign language in writing
- misprogram — to program badly or wrongly
- monocarpic — producing fruit only once and then dying.
- morphactin — any of various synthetic compounds, derived from fluorine and carboxylic acid, that regulate the growth and development of plants.
- muciparous — muciferous.
- multiparae — Plural form of multipara.
- multiparty — of or relating to more than two political parties.
- multipolar — having several or many poles.
- nitrazepam — a synthetic chemical compound belonging to the benzodiazepine group of drugs; a minor tranquillizer used mainly in sleeping tablets, such as Mogadon. Formula: C15H11N3O3
- omniparity — a state of universal equality
- omniparous — producing or generating all things
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- padma shri — (in India) an award for distinguished service in any field
- palindrome — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- panaritium — a whitlow
- pancratium — (in ancient Greece) an athletic contest combining wrestling and boxing.
- pandermite — a white, marble-like mineral
- panic room — a secure room with a separate telephone line within a house, to which a person can flee if someone breaks in
- panspermia — the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores that develop in the right environment.
- panspermic — relating to panspermia
- pantrymaid — a domestic maid whose duties concern the pantry