14-letter words containing p, e, r, m, i
- post-modernism — Post-modernism is a late twentieth century approach in art, architecture, and literature which typically mixes styles, ideas, and references to modern society, often in an ironic way.
- post-modernist — A post-modernist is a writer, artist, or architect who is influenced by post-modernism.
- postdeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, including ordinal and cardinal numbers, that may be placed after an article or other determiner and before a descriptive adjective, as first and three in the first three new chapters.
- postmastership — the office or position of a postmaster
- postretirement — relating to or occurring in the period after retirement
- potentiometric — a device for measuring electromotive force or potential difference by comparison with a known voltage.
- pour le merite — for merit.
- powdery mildew — any of various parasitic fungi of the ascomycete order Erysiphales, which produce a powderlike film of mycelium on the surface of host plants.
- prayer meeting — a meeting chiefly for prayer.
- pre-assumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
- pre-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
- pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
- pre-experiment — occurring, existing, or implemented prior to beginning an experiment
- pre-intimation — to indicate or make known indirectly; hint; imply; suggest.
- pre-investment — the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
- precision-made — made to precise specifications
- precompetitive — in marketing, designating or occurring during the stage prior to the completion of development of a product, when companies collaborate rather than compete
- precompression — the act of compressing.
- predeterminate — determined beforehand; predetermined.
- predeterminism — the belief that everything is predetermined
- preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- preliminaries' — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- premeditatedly — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
- premier league — a professional football or soccer league consisting of the top teams in England and Wales
- premillenarian — a believer in premillennialism.
- premium income — An insurer's premium income is the income that it earns from premiums.
- preprogramming — the action of programming a computer in advance
- prerequirement — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
- prescriptivism — a writer, teacher, or supporter of prescriptive grammar.
- presentimental — expressing a presentiment
- presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
- pretermination — of the period before termination (esp of employment)
- primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
- primal therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to relive traumatic events, often screaming or crying, in order to achieve catharsis and a breakdown of psychological defenses.
- primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
- primary letter — a lowercase character having neither a descender nor an ascender, as a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z.
- primary phloem — phloem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
- primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- primary stress — primary accent.
- primary tissue — any tissue resulting directly from differentiation of an apical meristem.
- prime computer — (company) (Or "Pr1ME") A minicomputer manufacturer.
- prime meridian — the meridian running through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned.
- prime minister — the principal minister and head of government in parliamentary systems; chief of the cabinet or ministry: the British prime minister.
- prime the pump — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
- prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
- primenet, inc. — Arizona's Internet provider.
- primitive cell — a unit cell containing no points of the lattice except at the corners of the cell.
- printed matter — any of various kinds of printed material that qualifies for a special postal rate.
- printer's mark — a stamp or device, usually found on the copyright page, that identifies a book as the work of a particular printer.