10-letter words containing p, a, r, m
- 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.
- mascarpone — a very soft Italian cream cheese made from cow's milk.
- masspriest — a Roman Catholic priest
- masterplan — a general plan or program for achieving an objective.
- 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.
- mcpartland — Marian, 1918–2013, British jazz pianist and composer, in U.S. since 1946.
- measure up — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- meatpacker — a person or company involved in the wholesale meat trade
- mecopteran — mecopterous.
- megaparsec — one million parsecs.
- megaspores — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
- melon pear — pepino (def 2).
- menlo park — a city in W California, near San Francisco.
- mercaptide — a metallic salt of a mercaptan.
- metacarpal — of or relating to the metacarpus.
- metacarpus — the part of a hand or forelimb, especially of its bony structure, included between the wrist, or carpus, and the fingers, or phalanges.
- 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).
- metaphrase — a literal translation.
- metaphrast — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- 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
- mobe pearl — mabe pearl.
- monocarpic — producing fruit only once and then dying.
- monographs — Plural form of monograph.
- monography — A monograph.
- monopteral — having the form of a monopteron.
- morphactin — any of various synthetic compounds, derived from fluorine and carboxylic acid, that regulate the growth and development of plants.
- morse lamp — a blinker lamp for signaling in Morse code.
- most-asper — harsh; rough.
- motor camp — a camp for motorists, tents, and caravans
- mousetraps — Plural form of mousetrap.
- mouth harp — harmonica (def 1).
- mouthparts — Plural form of mouthpart.
- mp3 player — a digital media player, usually portable, that plays and stores files in the MP3 format.
- muciparous — muciferous.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- multiparae — Plural form of multipara.
- multiparty — of or relating to more than two political parties.
- multipolar — having several or many poles.
- myoatrophy — atrophy of muscle.
- myotherapy — A form of manual medicine focusing on the diagnosis, treatment and management of musculoskeletal pain.
- neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
- 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
- nomographs — Plural form of nomograph.