6-letter words containing p, m
- palmer — Alice Elvira, 1855–1902, U.S. educator.
- palmie — a palmtop computer
- paloma — a female given name.
- pamela — (or Virtue Rewarded) an epistolary novel (1740) by Samuel Richardson.
- pamiri — a member of a Caucasian people inhabiting the Pamirs.
- pamirs — the, a mountainous region in central Asia, largely in Tajikistan, where the Hindu Kush, Tien Shan, and Himalaya mountain ranges converge: highest peaks, about 25,000 feet (7600 meters).
- pampas — a city in N Texas.
- pamper — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
- pamyat — an ultraconservative Russian nationalist organization founded in 1980 and noted for disseminating anti-Western and anti-Semitic propaganda.
- panama — a republic in S Central America. 28,575 sq. mi. (74,010 sq. km).
- panjim — an administrative territory of India, in the W part: formerly Portuguese India; annexed by India 1961. 1426 sq. mi. (3693 sq. km). Capital: Panjim.
- papism — Roman Catholicism.
- paraml — An extension of Standard ML which supports coarse-grained parallelism. Peter Bailey, while at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre at University of Edinburgh, has implemented of Murray Cole's original four skeletons in paraML. See also Skel-ML.
- paramo — a high, cold plateau of South America.
- parfum — perfume.
- parmod — "Parallel Programming with ParMod", S. Eichholz, Proc 1987 Intl Conf on Parallel Proc, pp.377-380.
- partim — in part
- passim — so throughout: used especially as a footnote to indicate that a word, phrase, or idea recurs throughout the book being cited.
- patmos — one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- paxman — Jeremy (Dickson). born 1950, British journalist, broadcaster, and author, noted esp for his political interviews
- paynim — a pagan or heathen.
- pc-ism — /P-C-izm/ A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like, e.g. by busy-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory or using hard timing loops. Compare ill-behaved, vaxism, Unixism.
- pcmcia — (body, standard) Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. (Or People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms).
- pelham — a bit that is used with two pairs of reins, designed to serve the purpose of a full bridle.
- pellum — dust
- pelmet — a decorative cornice or valance at the head of a window or doorway, used to cover the fastenings from which curtains are hung.
- penman — a person who writes or copies; scribe; copyist.
- pensum — a piece of work or a task to be completed, esp a school exercise
- peplum — a short full flounce or an extension of a garment below the waist, covering the hips.
- perma- — indicating a fixed state
- permed — permanent (def 4).
- permic — a subfamily of Finnic, comprising the modern languages Udmurt and Komi, spoken in northeastern European Russia, and fragmentary attestations of an earlier language (Old Permic) dating from the 15th century.
- permie — a person, esp an office worker, employed by a firm on a permanent basis
- permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- pharma — a pharmaceutical company.
- phenom — a phenomenon, especially a young prodigy: a twelve-year-old tennis phenom.
- phlegm — the thick mucus secreted in the respiratory passages and discharged through the mouth, especially that occurring in the lungs and throat passages, as during a cold.
- phloem — the part of a vascular bundle consisting of sieve tubes, companion cells, parenchyma, and fibers and forming the food-conducting tissue of a plant.
- phylum — Biology. the primary subdivision of a taxonomic kingdom, grouping together all classes of organisms that have the same body plan.
- pieman — a seller of pies
- pigman — a male pig farmer
- pileum — the top of the head of a bird, from the base of the bill to the nape.
- piment — wine flavoured with spices and honey
- pimola — an olive stuffed with red sweet pepper; stuffed olive.
- pimped — a person, especially a man, who solicits customers for a prostitute or a brothel, usually in return for a share of the earnings; pander; procurer.
- pimple — a small, usually inflammatory swelling or elevation of the skin; papule or pustule.
- pimply — having many pimples.
- pithom — one of the two cities built by Israelite slaves in Egypt. Ex. 1:11.
- pitman — a person who works in a pit, as in coal mining.
- pixmap — (Contraction of "pixel map"). A 3 dimensional array of bits corresponding to a 2 dimensional array of pixels. It is used, for example, in the X Window System to describe a memory region where graphics can be drawn without affecting the screen. Typically this is used for the efficient handling of expose events, icon images or for animation. Compare bitmap.