10-letter words containing p, a, r, m
- rape alarm — a device that emits a shrill sound when activated, which a woman can carry as a protection against attack
- re-attempt — to attempt (something) again
- re-baptism — a new or second baptism
- relief map — a map showing the relief of an area, usually by generalized contour lines.
- repair man — mechanic: male who fixes appliances
- reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- revampment — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- rhinophyma — a red-coloured bump or bumps on the nose which form as a result of enlarged sebaceous glands and rosacea
- rifampicin — a drug used in the treatment of tuberculosis, meningitis, and leprosy
- rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- roma gypsy — a member of a people scattered throughout Europe and North America, who maintain a nomadic way of life in industrialized societies
- roman pace — an ancient Roman unit of measurement, equal to 5 Roman feet or about 58 U.S. inches (147 cm).
- rope maker — a craftsman who makes ropes
- ropemaking — the act, skill, or process of fabricating rope.
- royal palm — any of several tall, showy feather palms of the genus Roystonea, as R. regia, having a trunk that is swollen in the middle.
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- sapperment — a German oath
- sarcoplasm — the cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber.
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- separatism — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
- sheep farm — place where sheep are raised
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- smarten up — improve appearance
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.
- spare room — guest bedroom
- spare time — leisure hours
- sparganium — a marsh plant
- spartanism — Also, Spartanic [spahr-tan-ik] /spɑrˈtæn ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to Sparta or its people.
- specmark89 — (benchmark) An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
- speed ramp — a raised band across a road, designed to make motorists reduce their speed, esp in built-up areas
- sperm bank — a repository for storing sperm and keeping it viable under scientifically controlled conditions prior to its use in artificial insemination.
- spermaceti — a pearly white, waxy, translucent solid, obtained from the oil in the head of the sperm whale: used chiefly in cosmetics and candles, and as an emollient.
- spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
- spermarium — the sperm gland
- spermatial — relating to the male reproductive cells of certain red algae and fungi
- spermatium — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spermatoid — resembling sperm.
- sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
- spiral arm — any of the elongated and curved spiral sections that are connected to the center of a spiral galaxy.
- sporangium — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- sporoplasm — the protoplasm within a spore that is injected into a host cell by various parasitic organisms.
- spy camera — a hidden, disguised or miniature camera used in espionage
- stampeders — a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.
- statampere — the electrostatic unit of current, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 ampere and equal to the current produced by an electromotive force of one statvolt acting through a resistance of one statohm.
- steam trap — a device in a steam pipe that collects and discharges condensed water
- stop-frame — Also called stop frame. the process of filming puppets and other objects one frame at a time while incrementally moving or modifying them, giving the illusion of lifelike motion when the captured film frames are viewed in rapid sequence (often used attributively): stop-motion animation; a stop-motion film.