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14-letter words containing p, o, m, e, r, y

  • money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
  • monocarpellary — consisting of a single carpel.
  • mononeuropathy — A neuropathy that affects only a single nerve (as distinguished from polyneuropathy).
  • morning prayer — matin (def 1c).
  • myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
  • myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
  • ophthalmometry — the measurement and determination of the eye's defects and powers of refraction
  • overemployment — an act or instance of employing someone or something.
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • pancreatectomy — excision of part or all of the pancreas.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parent company — a corporation or other business enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiary companies (distinguished from holding company).
  • paroemiography — the writing or collecting of proverbs
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • petrochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with petroleum or its products.
  • phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
  • photochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
  • photogrammetry — the process of making surveys and maps through the use of photographs, especially aerial photographs.
  • phytochemistry — the branch of biochemistry dealing with plants and plant processes.
  • piezochemistry — the study of chemical reactions at high pressures
  • plane geometry — the geometry of figures whose parts all lie in one plane.
  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • polyacrylamide — a white, solid, water-soluble polymer of acrylamide, used in secondary oil recovery, as a thickening agent, a flocculant, and an absorbent, and to separate macromolecules of different molecular weights.
  • polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
  • poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
  • 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.
  • pre-employment — being required or accomplished before an employee begins a new job: a preemployment medical exam.
  • presumptuously — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
  • presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
  • 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.
  • proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
  • proximity fuze — a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.
  • proxy marriage — a marriage performed between one of the two contracting parties and a proxy who has been authorized to represent the other.
  • pseudosymmetry — an apparent symmetry different from that appropriate to a crystal of a given mineral.
  • pulmonary tree — the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree.
  • pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  • pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
  • pure democracy — a form of democracy in which the laws and policies are made directly by the citizens rather than by representatives.
  • pygmy marmoset — a related form, Cebuella pygmaea: the smallest monkey, inhabiting tropical forests of the Amazon
  • pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
  • pyrometallurgy — the process or technique of refining ores with heat so as to accelerate chemical reactions or to melt the metallic or nonmetallic content.
  • pyrophotometer — a form of pyrometer that measures temperature by optical or photometric means.
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • record company — business: sells recorded music
  • rhombenporphyr — an intermediate igneous rock embedded with rhombus-shaped crystals
  • rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
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