10-letter words containing p, e, a, m
- multiparae — Plural form of multipara.
- multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multiplane — Consisting of several planes or surfaces.
- mushy peas — dried peas that have been soaked, boiled and mashed - often eaten with fish and chips
- myelopathy — any disorder of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
- myopathies — Plural form of myopathy.
- myotherapy — A form of manual medicine focusing on the diagnosis, treatment and management of musculoskeletal pain.
- mythopoeia — a mythopoeic act, circumstance, characteristic, etc.
- named pipe — (operating system) A Unix pipe with a filename created using the "mknod" command. Named pipes allow unrelated processes to communicate with each other whereas the normal (un-named) kind can only be used by processes which are parent and child or siblings (forked from the same parent).
- nameplates — Plural form of nameplate.
- namespaces — Plural form of namespace.
- neopallium — neocortex.
- 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
- nonexample — Example that is irrelevant to a rule or a definition already shown, used for a clearer explanation.
- nonpayment — failure or neglect to pay: His property was confiscated for nonpayment of taxes.
- omeprazole — a drug, C 17 H 19 N 3 O 3 S, that inhibits the formation of gastric acid, used in the treatment of peptic ulcers and gastroesophageal reflux disease.
- open frame — a frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or a spare.
- pacemaking — the act of setting a pace for race competitors
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- paddymelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
- palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- 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.
- palliament — a long robe
- palm beach — a town in SE Florida: seaside winter resort.
- palm civet — any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
- palm grove — small forest of palm trees
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- palmcorder — A palmcorder is a small video camera that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- palmerworm — the larva of a tineid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, of the eastern U.S., that feeds on the leaves of apple and other fruit trees.
- pan-german — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pandemonic — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- pandermite — a white, marble-like mineral
- panel game — a game in which the teams consists of two or more opposing panels or groups of people who discuss or decide on the answers, etc together
- 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
- pantomimed — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
- paper mill — factory where paper is made
- papermaker — a person or thing that makes paper.
- papiamento — a creolized language based on Spanish and spoken on Curaçao.
- paramagnet — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- paramecium — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
- parameters — Mathematics. a constant or variable term in a function that determines the specific form of the function but not its general nature, as a in f (x) = ax, where a determines only the slope of the line described by f (x). one of the independent variables in a set of parametric equations.
- parametric — Mathematics. a constant or variable term in a function that determines the specific form of the function but not its general nature, as a in f (x) = ax, where a determines only the slope of the line described by f (x). one of the independent variables in a set of parametric equations.
- paramnesia — Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
- paregmenon — the juxtaposition of words that have a common derivation, as in “sense and sensibility.”.
- parenchyma — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.