8-letter words containing p, e, r, m, a
- lempiras — Plural form of lempira.
- malapert — unbecomingly bold or saucy.
- manpower — power in terms of people available or required for work or military service: the manpower of a country.
- mapepire — (Trinidad and Tobago) The venomous snake Lachesis muta.
- mapmaker — a person who makes maps; cartographer.
- megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
- mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
- mericarp — one of the carpels of a schizocarp.
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- metaphor — 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).
- milarepa — (tool) A Perl BNF parser generator by Jeffrey Kegler <[email protected]>. Milarepa takes a source grammar written in a mixture of BNF and Perl and generates Perl source, which, when enclosed in a simple wrapper, parses the language described by the grammar. Milarepa is not restricted to LRn grammars, and the parse logic follows directly from the BNF. It handles ambiguous grammars, ambiguous tokens (tokens which were not positively identified by the lexer) and allows the programmer to change the start symbol. The grammar may not be left recursive. The input must be divided into sentences of a finite maximum length. There is no fixed distinction between terminals and non-terminals, that is, a symbol can both match the input AND be on the left hand side of a production. Multiple Marpa grammars are allowed in a single Perl program. Version: Prototype 1.0. Posted to comp.lang.perl. The author is seeking an FTP site to hold the software.
- misparse — To parse incorrectly.
- namedrop — Alternative spelling of name-drop.
- p marker — phrase marker.
- palmgren — Selim [sel-im,, sey-lim;; Finnish se-lim] /ˈsɛl ɪm,, ˈseɪ lɪm;; Finnish ˈsɛ lɪm/ (Show IPA), 1878–1951, Finnish pianist and composer.
- pampered — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
- pamphrey — a cabbage
- parabema — an architectural feature of an Orthodox church
- parament — a decoration for a room, as a tapestry.
- paramese — a note in ancient Greek music, the note above the mese
- parmesan — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
- paroemia — a proverb; an axiom
- passmore — George. Born 1943, a British artist who is noted esp for his photomontages and performance works with Gilbert Proesch
- pearmain — any of several varieties of apple having a red skin
- penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- perelman — S(idney) J(oseph) 1904–79, U.S. author.
- pergamon — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pergamum — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- permeant — permeating; pervading.
- permease — any of the proteins that mediate the transport of various molecules across biological membranes.
- permeate — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
- peterman — a safecracker.
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- pomander — a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc.
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- preadmit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- preamble — an introductory statement; preface; introduction. Synonyms: opening, beginning; foreword, prologue, prelude. Antonyms: epilogue, appendix, conclusion, afterword, closing.
- preflame — of the period before combustion
- prehuman — preceding the appearance or existence of human beings: the prehuman ages.
- preimage — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- premiate — to grant a prize or an award to.
- premolar — situated in front of the molar teeth.
- premoral — of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
- pressman — a person who operates or has charge of a printing press.
- prestamp — to stamp in advance
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- prizeman — a man who wins a prize
- proemial — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.