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

  • part-time — employed to work, used, expected to function, etc., less than the usual or full time: a part-time clerk.
  • pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
  • patrimony — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
  • 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
  • pictogram — pictograph.
  • pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
  • pilgrimer — a pilgrim
  • pilomotor — causing movement of hairs
  • 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.
  • piracetam — a drug used to improve cognitive powers and memory, used to treat stroke victims and sufferers of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, etc
  • piroplasm — babesia.
  • piroxicam — a white crystalline solid substance, C 1 5 H 1 3 N 3 O 4 S, used in the symptomatic treatment of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and other musculoskeletal disorders.
  • pisciform — shaped like a fish.
  • planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
  • pleiomery — the state of a flower having more than the normal number of parts
  • plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
  • pluralism — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
  • pogromist — a person who participates in a pogrom
  • polymeric — of or relating to a polymer.
  • pomerania — a former province of NE Germany, now mostly in NW Poland.
  • pomoerium — the space around a town within the city walls
  • porogamic — pertaining to or designating porogamy
  • poromeric — any of various microporous synthetic materials used as leather substitutes.
  • practicum — (in a college or university) the part of a course consisting of practical work in a particular field.
  • pragmatic — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
  • pre-image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
  • preadamic — occurring or existing before Adam
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