13-letter words containing p, m, a
- primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
- primary group — a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.
- 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
- primary tooth — one of the temporary teeth of a mammal that are replaced by the permanent teeth.
- primary xylem — xylem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
- primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- primigravidas — a woman pregnant for the first time.
- primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- 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.
- priority mail — (in the U.S. Postal Service) mail consisting of merchandise weighing more than 12 ounces sent at first-class rates.
- prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- pro-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- problem state — IBM jargon for user mode, the opposite of "supervisor state". On IBM System 360, 370 and 390 mainframes privileged instructions may only be executed in "supervisor state". Application programs request the operating system to perform these operations by using the Supervisor Call (SVC) instruction.
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- profit margin — the percentage that profit constitutes of total sales.
- profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
- progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
- promised land — Heaven.
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- pronominalize — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
- proposal form — a form filled out by a person applying for insurance
- prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
- protanomalous — of, relating to, or affected by protanomaly
- protest march — public demonstration
- protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
- proto-elamite — the indigenous script of Elam, found on inscriptions and tablets from the fourth millennium b.c.
- protoactinium — protactinium.
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- psammophilous — living or growing in sand
- psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- psychosomatic — of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.
- public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
- pump-and-dump — the practice of buying shares, generating favourable publicity about them, especially on the internet, then selling them when the price accordingly rises
- pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- purple martin — a large American swallow, Progne subis, the male of which is blue-black.
- pusillanimity — the state or condition of being pusillanimous; timidity; cowardliness.
- pusillanimous — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
- 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.
- pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
- quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
- radio compass — a radio receiver with a directional antenna for determining the bearing of the receiver from a radio transmitter.
- ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus