15-letter words containing p, r, i, m, a, y
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- marital therapy — a psychotherapeutic treatment for married couples, who are seen by a therapist both individually and jointly to assist them in resolving various problems related to their marriage.
- memory capacity — (on a computer or other device) the amount of memory space available for data storage
- metamorphically — In a metamorphic manner.
- microangiopathy — any disease of the small blood vessels.
- microphysically — in a microphysical manner
- microscopically — so small as to be invisible or indistinct without the use of the microscope: microscopic organisms. Compare macroscopic.
- microtopography — microrelief.
- military police — soldiers who perform police duties
- minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
- morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
- morphologically — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
- morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
- palindromically — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- parasympathetic — pertaining to that part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves and ganglia that arise from the cranial and sacral regions and function in opposition to the sympathetic system, as in inhibiting heartbeat or contracting the pupil of the eye.
- parliamentarily — in a parliamentary manner
- phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
- physical memory — (memory management) The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
- planimetrically — in a planimetric manner
- polymorphically — in a polymorphic manner
- polynomial ring — the set of all polynomials in an indeterminate variable with coefficients that are elements of a given ring.
- poststimulatory — following stimulation
- poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
- premillennially — from a premillennial point of view
- presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
- primary contact — a communication or relationship between people that is characterized by intimacy and personal familiarity.
- primary feather — any of the flight feathers growing from the manus of a bird's wing
- primary insurer — A primary insurer is the insurance company that first sells insurance to a client, who later purchases reinsurance.
- primary process — the generally unorganized mental activity characteristic of the unconscious and occurring in dreams, fantasies, and related processes.
- primary product — a product consisting of a natural raw material; an unmanufactured product
- primary quality — any of the qualities inherent in an object, namely quantity, extent, figure, solidity, and motion or rest.
- primary rainbow — the most commonly seen rainbow, formed by light rays that undergo a single internal reflection in a drop of water.
- primary sealing — Primary sealing is devices used for sealing tanks, to reduce emissions, often made of foam.
- primary storage — main memory
- primary teacher — a teacher in a primary school
- primary winding — an induction coil that is the part of an electric circuit in which a changing current induces a current in a neighbouring circuit
- primrose family — the plant family Primulaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having simple, opposite, whorled, or basal leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including cyclamen, loosestrife of the genus Lysimachia, pimpernel, primrose, and shooting star.
- prismatic layer — the middle layer of the shell of certain mollusks, consisting chiefly of crystals of calcium carbonate.
- private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
- problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- programmability — capable of being programmed.
- proximity talks — a diplomatic process whereby an impartial representative acts as go-between for two opposing parties who are willing to attend the same conference but unwilling to meet face to face
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
- pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
- pyramidal tract — any of four tracts of descending motor fibers that extend in pairs down each side of the spinal column and function in voluntary movement.
- pyrimidine base — any of a number of similar compounds having a basic structure that is derived from pyrimidine, including cytosine, thymine, and uracil, which are constituents of nucleic acids
- pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
- refinery revamp — A refinery revamp is a change in the technology or processes used in a refinery.
- semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic