13-letter words containing p, e, r, m, i
- circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
- commandership — a person who commands.
- comparatively — in a comparative manner
- compartimento — any of the 18 administrative districts into which Italy is divided.
- compiler jock — A programmer who specialises in writing compilers.
- complimentary — If you are complimentary about something, you express admiration for it.
- comprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- comprehension — Comprehension is the ability to understand something.
- comprehensive — Something that is comprehensive includes everything that is needed or relevant.
- compressional — relating to compression
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- computer chip — a small integrated circuit of a kind used in computers
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- computer file — file
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
- contemporised — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- contemporized — Simple past tense and past participle of contemporize.
- copolymerized — Polymerized, along with another compound, to form a copolymer.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- cotemporality — The state or characteristic of existing or occurring during the same period of time.
- crape jasmine — a shrub, Tabernaemontana divaricata, native to India, having white flowers that are fragrant at night.
- cryptoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
- decompression — Decompression is the reduction of the force on something that is caused by the weight of the air.
- deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
- demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- demultiplexer — a type of electronic circuit which receives a single input signal and selects one of multiple possible output routes to which to transmit the signal
- depolymerized — Simple past tense and past participle of depolymerize.
- dermatotropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- descriptivism — the theory that moral utterances have a truth value
- diadem spider — a common Eurasian spider, Araneus diadematus, that constructs orb webs: family Argiopidae
- diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
- diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
- diffeomorphic — (mathematics) Having a diffeomorphism.
- disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
- drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
- empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic
- empyreumatize — to infect or spoil with empyreuma
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- enantiomorphy — the state of being enantiomorphic
- epidermolysis — Loosening of the epidermis, with extensive blistering of the skin and mucous membranes, occurring either after injury, or as a spontaneous and potentially dangerous condition, particularly in children.
- epigrammatism — The use of epigrams; epigrammatical character.