13-letter words containing p, e, r, m, i, t
- pre-mentioned — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
- pre-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- precommitment — the act of committing.
- predetermined — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
- predeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, often quantitative in meaning, that may be placed before an article or other determiner, as all in all the paintings or half in half her salary.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- premeditation — an act or instance of premeditating.
- premonishment — a forewarning
- premonitorily — in a premonitory manner
- prenomination — the act of naming in advance of a formal nomination
- preretirement — the act of retiring, withdrawing, or leaving; the state of being retired.
- presumptively — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- pretermission — to let pass without notice; disregard.
- primary metal — metal derived directly from ore rather than from scrap.
- primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
- primitive gut — archenteron.
- primitiveness — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
- primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
- primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
- prism diopter — a unit of prismatic deviation, in which the number one represents a prism that deflects a beam of light a distance of one centimeter on a plane placed normal to the initial direction of the beam and one meter away from the prism.
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
- progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- proper motion — Astronomy. the angular motion of a star relative to a suitably defined frame of reference, expressed in seconds of arc per year.
- protectionism — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
- proto-elamite — the indigenous script of Elam, found on inscriptions and tablets from the fourth millennium b.c.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
- psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
- purple martin — a large American swallow, Progne subis, the male of which is blue-black.
- pyrheliometer — an instrument for measuring the total intensity of the sun's energy radiation.
- pyrimethamine — a potent substance, C 1 2 H 1 3 ClN 4 , used against susceptible plasmodia in the prophylactic treatment of malaria and against Toxoplasma gondi in the treatment of toxoplasmosis.
- ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
- reappointment — a fixed mutual agreement for a meeting; engagement: We made an appointment to meet again.
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
- recomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.