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9-letter words containing t, e, m, p

  • preformat — to format in advance
  • prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
  • premarket — of the period before a product is available
  • premature — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
  • premiated — to grant a prize or an award to.
  • premortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
  • premotion — a previous motion
  • prescutum — the anterior dorsal sclerite of a thoracic segment of an insect.
  • presummit — of the period prior to a summit
  • pretermit — to let pass without notice; disregard.
  • prettyism — an affectedly pretty style
  • primitiae — the first fruits of the harvest
  • primitive — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
  • progamete — a cell that is the precursor of one ovum or many spermatozoa; a spermatocyte or oocyte.
  • prometric — in favour of the metric system
  • prominent — standing out so as to be seen easily; conspicuous; particularly noticeable: Her eyes are her most prominent feature.
  • promotive — tending to promote.
  • prompture — prompting
  • protamine — any of a group of arginine-rich, strongly basic proteins that are not coagulated by heat, occurring primarily in the sperm of fish.
  • proteomic — relating to a proteome
  • protoderm — a thin outer layer of the meristem in embryos and growing points of roots and stems, which gives rise to the epidermis.
  • protonema — a primary, usually filamentous structure produced by the germination of the spore in mosses and certain related plants, and from which the leafy plant which bears the sexual organs arises as a lateral or terminal shoot.
  • proximate — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
  • prozymite — a person using leavened bread for the Eucharist
  • prytaneum — a public building in ancient Greece, containing the symbolic hearth of the community and commonly resembling a private dwelling in plan, used as a community meeting place and as a lodging for guests of the community.
  • pterygium — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
  • ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
  • ptolemies — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
  • ptolemy i — (surnamed Soter) 367?–280 b.c, ruler of Egypt 323–285: founder of Macedonian dynasty in Egypt.
  • pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
  • pyrethrum — any of several chrysanthemums, as Chrysanthemum coccineum, having finely divided leaves and showy red, pink, lilac, or white flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
  • pyrometer — an apparatus for measuring high temperatures that uses the radiation emitted by a hot body as a basis for measurement.
  • pyrometry — an apparatus for measuring high temperatures that uses the radiation emitted by a hot body as a basis for measurement.
  • re-import — to import back into the country of exportation.
  • reattempt — to make an effort at; try; undertake; seek: to attempt an impossible task; to attempt to walk six miles.
  • recompact — to pack or join (something) closely together again
  • recompute — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
  • redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
  • reimplant — Surgery. to restore (a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure) to its original site.
  • repayment — to pay back or refund, as money.
  • repigment — to (cause to) regain pigmentation
  • reptilium — a building for the public exhibition of reptiles.
  • rest camp — a camp where soldiers rest
  • route map — road plan showing where to go
  • separatum — a reprint of an article separately from the magazine, journal, or book in which it was originally published; an offprint
  • septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
  • september — the ninth month of the year, containing 30 days. Abbreviation: Sept., Sep.
  • septemfid — divided into seven
  • septemvir — a member of a seven-man ruling body in ancient Rome.
  • septiform — sevenfold
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