9-letter words containing p, r, i, m
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
- mid-price — at a medium or average price; not particularly expensive nor particularly cheap
- midpriced — Alternative spelling of mid-priced.
- midspread — (statistics) The interquartile range.
- millepore — a coralline hydrozoan of the genus Millepora, having a smooth calcareous surface with many perforations.
- miniparks — Plural form of minipark.
- minorship — the state of being a minor
- 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.
- misprints — Plural form of misprint.
- misprison — Misconstruction of misprision.
- 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
- mixotroph — any organism capable of existing as either an autotroph or heterotroph.
- monoprint — A form of printing on paper from a glass sheet to which oil paint has been applied; monotype.
- 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).
- morphinic — of, pertaining to, or resembling morphine
- morphisms — Plural form of morphism.
- morphosis — the sequence or manner of development or change in an organism or any of its parts.
- morphotic — (biology) Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework.
- motorship — a ship driven by a diesel or other internal-combustion engine.
- multipara — a woman who has borne two or more children, or who is parturient for the second time.
- multipart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- multiport — Computers. having more than one port.
- myriapods — Plural form of myriapod.
- n'importe — no matter
- omnigraph — a device for converting Morse Code signals that are punched on a tape into audio signals, used in the training of telegraph operators.
- opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
- optimizer — A person in a large business whose task is to maximize profits and make the business more efficient.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panoramic — an unobstructed and wide view of an extensive area in all directions.
- 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.
- pariahdom — an outcast.
- pariahism — an outcast.
- paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
- parseeism — the religion and customs of the Parsees.
- parsimony — extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.