11-letter words containing p, r, i, a, s, m
- impersonate — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- importances — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- impregnates — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- impresarios — Plural form of impresario.
- improvisate — To improvise; to extemporize.
- in personam — (of a judicial act) directed against a specific person or persons
- intercampus — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- isometropia — equality of refraction in the two eyes of an individual.
- leprosarium — a hospital for the treatment of lepers.
- liposarcoma — (medicine) Any malignant tumour that originates in adipose tissue.
- macroscopic — visible to the naked eye. Compare microscopic (def 1).
- mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
- mainsprings — Plural form of mainspring.
- malapropism — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
- malapropist — a person who regularly makes malapropisms
- managership — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marshalship — The position or role of a marshal.
- masterpiece — a person's greatest piece of work, as in an art.
- metaphorist — a creator or user of metaphors
- metaphrasis — a metaphrase
- micrographs — Plural form of micrograph.
- microphages — Plural form of microphage.
- mimeographs — Plural form of mimeograph.
- mis-phrased — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- misanthropy — hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.
- misappraise — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
- mispersuade — to persuade wrongly
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
- multispiral — having several spiral coils
- music paper — paper ruled or printed with a stave for writing music
- myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
- oarsmanship — The skill of rowing a boat.
- pan-arabism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the Arab nations.
- panspermist — someone who advocates panspermia
- parabaptism — unauthorized baptism
- parallelism — the position or relation of parallels.
- paramastoid — of or relating to the part of the skull next to the mastoid process
- parascenium — either of two wings flanking and extending forward from the skene of an ancient Greek theater.
- parish pump — of only local interest; parochial
- paronomasia — the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
- partial sum — one of a series of sums of elements of a given sequence, the first sum being the first element, the second sum being the first element added to the second element, the third sum being equal to the sum of the first three elements, and so on.
- partisanism — partisan action or spirit.
- party music — music for or at a party
- passeriform — of or relating to the order Passeriformes; passerine.
- pastoralism — the practice of herding as the primary economic activity of a society.
- paternalism — the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president.