9-letter words containing p, r, e, m
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- imperiled — to put in peril or danger; endanger.
- imperious — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
- impetrate — to obtain by entreaty.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- impleader — a procedural method by which an original party to an action may bring in and make a claim against a third party in connection with the claim made against the original party.
- importers — Plural form of importer.
- importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
- imposters — Plural form of imposter.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- impounder — One who impounds.
- imprecate — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- imprecise — not precise; not exact; vague or ill-defined.
- impressed — to press or force into public service, as sailors.
- impresser — to affect deeply or strongly in mind or feelings; influence in opinion: He impressed us as a sincere young man.
- impresses — Plural form of impress.
- imprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of imprint.
- imprinter — a person or thing that imprints.
- improvise — to compose and perform or deliver without previous preparation; extemporize: to improvise an acceptance speech.
- improvize — Alternative spelling of improvise.
- imprudent — not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash.
- impurpled — Simple past tense and past participle of impurple.
- ip number — internet address
- jump rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
- jump wire — jumper1 (def 6).
- keep from — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- klemperer — Otto, 1885–1973, German orchestra conductor.
- lampooner — Someone who lampoons; someone who pokes fun.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- limber up — characterized by ease in bending the body; supple; lithe.
- lorazepam — a benzodiazepine drug, C 15 H 10 Cl 2 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly in the management of acute anxiety and for insomnia.
- macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- madrepore — any true or stony coral of the order Madreporaria, forming reefs or islands in tropical seas.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- man power — the power supplied by human physical exertions: an ancient building constructed entirely by man power.
- manhelper — a long pole for holding a paintbrush, used in painting areas otherwise out of ordinary reach.
- manspread — (of a man) to sit with one's legs far apart, taking up too much space on a seat shared with other people: guys who manspread on the subway.
- mapepires — Plural form of mapepire.
- mapmakers — Plural form of mapmaker.
- marchpane — marzipan.
- marked-up — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
- martemper — (transitive) To subject (steel) to a heat treatment involving austenitization followed by step quenching (at a rate fast enough to avoid the formation of ferrite, pearlite or bainite), used to produce martensite under relatively low stress.
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- md-player — a machine on which you can play minidiscs
- megaspore — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
- meiospore — a haploid spore resulting from meiosis