9-letter words containing p, r, i, m, e
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly
- mispraise — to praise wrongly or mistakenly
- mispriced — Simple past tense and past participle of misprice.
- misprices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misprice.
- misprized — Simple past tense and past participle of misprize.
- misprizer — a despiser or scorner
- misprizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misprize.
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- mistemper — to disorder or disturb
- mixer tap — a tap in which hot and cold water supplies have a joint outlet but are controlled separately
- morphemic — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
- n'importe — no matter
- optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
- optimizer — A person in a large business whose task is to maximize profits and make the business more efficient.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- panderism — the work of a pander
- papermail — snail mail
- paramecia — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
- paramedic — Military. a medic in the paratroops.
- paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
- parseeism — the religion and customs of the Parsees.
- part-time — employed to work, used, expected to function, etc., less than the usual or full time: a part-time clerk.
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- pelviform — basin-shaped
- penniform — shaped like a feather; (esp of muscles) having fibres attached to the tendon in a feather-like fashion
- peperomia — any of numerous tropical and subtropical plants belonging to the genus Peperomia, of the pepper family, cultivated as houseplants for their ornamental foliage.
- perciform — a perch-like fish
- peridrome — (in Classical architecture) a colonnaded walkway running round a building, esp around a Classical temple
- perilymph — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
- perimeter — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
- perimetry — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
- perimorph — a crystal of one mineral enclosing that of another mineral. Compare endomorph (def 1).
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- perisperm — the nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo in certain seeds, and developing from the nucellus of the ovule
- peristome — Botany. the one or two circles of small, pointed, toothlike appendages around the orifice of a capsule or urn of mosses, appearing when the lid is removed.
- permalink — a permanent URL that links to a specific web page, typically a single blog entry or news article.
- permit me — You can use permit me when you are about to say something or to make a suggestion.
- permitted — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- permittee — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- permitter — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- persimmon — any of several trees of the genus Diospyros, especially D. virginiana, of North America, bearing astringent, plumlike fruit that is sweet and edible when ripe, and D. kaki, of Japan and China, bearing soft, red or orange fruit.
- petrinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by, or attributed to, the apostle Peter.
- pforzheim — a city in W Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- pia mater — the delicate, fibrous, and highly vascular membrane forming the innermost of the three coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Compare arachnoid (def 6), dura mater.
- picometer — one trillionth of a meter
- picometre — a trillionth fraction of metre
- pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
- pilgrimer — a pilgrim
- pimpernel — a plant belonging to the genus Anagallis, of the primrose family, especially A. arvensis (scarlet pimpernel) having scarlet or white flowers that close at the approach of bad weather.