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11-letter words containing r, o, m, i

  • overimposed — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
  • overimpress — to impress to an excessive degree
  • overmanning — overstaffing
  • overpromise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
  • palindromic — 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.
  • panicmonger — a person who spreads panic
  • panromantic — noting or relating to a person who is romantically attracted to people of all sexual orientations and gender identities: The singer came out as queer and panromantic at age 17.
  • papilliform — resembling a papilla.
  • paralimnion — the region of a lake floor between the shoreline or water's edge and the zone of rooted vegetation
  • paramastoid — of or relating to the part of the skull next to the mastoid process
  • parlourmaid — In former times, a parlourmaid was a female servant in a private house whose job involved serving people at table.
  • parodontium — periodontium.
  • paronomasia — the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
  • passeriform — of or relating to the order Passeriformes; passerine.
  • pastoralism — the practice of herding as the primary economic activity of a society.
  • patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
  • pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
  • patrimonial — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
  • pedomorphic — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
  • pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
  • penciliform — having a pencillike shape.
  • pentium pro — (processor)   (Known as "P6" during development) Intel's successor to the Pentium processor, in development Jan 1995, generally available 1995-11-01. The P6 has an internal RISC architecture with a CISC-RISC translator, 3-way superscalar execution, and out-of order execution (or "speculative execution", which Intel calls "Dynamic Execution"). It also features branch prediction and register renaming, and is superpipelined (14 stages). The P6 is made as a two-chip assembly: the first chip is the CPU and 16 kilobyte first-level cache (5.5 million transistors) and the other is a 256 (or 512) kilobyte second-level cache (15 million transistors). The first version has a clock rate of 133 Mhz and consumes about 20W of power. It is about twice as fast as the 100 MHz Pentium. The original 0.35 micron versions of the Pentium Pro released on 1995-11-01 run at 150 and 166 Mhz for desktop machines and up to 200 Mhz for servers. Heat disspation is about 20 Watts. The Pentium Pro is optimised for 32-bit software and runs 16-bit software slower than the original Pentium. The successor was the Pentium II.
  • permutation — the act of permuting or permutating; alteration; transformation.
  • peroxisomal — of or relating to a peroxisome; of the nature of a peroxisome
  • personalism — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • phosphorism — chronic phosphorus poisoning.
  • photometric — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
  • physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
  • piezometric — any of several instruments for measuring the pressure of a fluid or the compressibility of a substance when subjected to such a pressure.
  • pipe smoker — a person who smokes a tobacco pipe
  • pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
  • pittosporum — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Pittosporum, native to warm regions of the Old World, many species of which are cultivated as ornamentals for their attractive foliage, flowers, or fruit.
  • planuliform — resembling a planula
  • platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
  • pleiomerous — (of a flower) having a greater than normal number of parts
  • pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
  • pleomorphic — of, relating to, or characterized by pleomorphism; polymorphous.
  • plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
  • pluviometer — rain gauge.
  • plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
  • podetiiform — shaped like a podetium.
  • polarimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of light received from a given source as a function of its state of polarization.
  • policy term — The policy term is the lifetime of an insurance policy.
  • policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
  • polychromic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
  • polycrotism — a polycrotic condition
  • polymerizes — to subject to polymerization.
  • polymorphic — polymorphism
  • polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
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