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13-letter words containing p, r, i, m

  • predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
  • predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
  • predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
  • preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • preliminarily — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
  • premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
  • premeditation — an act or instance of premeditating.
  • premillennial — of or relating to the period preceding the millennium.
  • premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
  • premium price — elevated cost paid for sth of top quality
  • premonishment — a forewarning
  • premonitorily — in a premonitory manner
  • prenomination — the act of naming in advance of a formal nomination
  • preretirement — the act of retiring, withdrawing, or leaving; the state of being retired.
  • presubmission — an act or instance of submitting.
  • presumptively — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
  • pretermission — to let pass without notice; disregard.
  • primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
  • primary cache — (hardware, architecture)   (L1 cache, level one cache) A small, fast cache memory inside or close to the CPU chip. For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chip cache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level one cache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB data cache. The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected to the CPU via its external bus.
  • primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
  • primary group — a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.
  • primary metal — metal derived directly from ore rather than from scrap.
  • primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
  • primary tooth — one of the temporary teeth of a mammal that are replaced by the permanent teeth.
  • primary xylem — xylem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
  • primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
  • primigravidas — a woman pregnant for the first time.
  • primitive gut — archenteron.
  • primitiveness — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
  • primitivistic — a recurrent theory or belief, as in philosophy or art, that the qualities of primitive or chronologically early cultures are superior to those of contemporary civilization.
  • primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
  • primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
  • primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
  • primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
  • primum mobile — (in Ptolemaic astronomy) the outermost of the 10 concentric spheres of the universe, making a complete revolution every 24 hours and causing all the others to do likewise.
  • priority mail — (in the U.S. Postal Service) mail consisting of merchandise weighing more than 12 ounces sent at first-class rates.
  • prism diopter — a unit of prismatic deviation, in which the number one represents a prism that deflects a beam of light a distance of one centimeter on a plane placed normal to the initial direction of the beam and one meter away from the prism.
  • prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
  • prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
  • privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
  • privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
  • pro-communist — (initial capital letter) a member of the Communist Party or movement.
  • problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • profit margin — the percentage that profit constitutes of total sales.
  • profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
  • profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
  • progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
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