10-letter words containing u, m, p, i, r
- multiparae — Plural form of multipara.
- multiparty — of or relating to more than two political parties.
- multiplier — a person or thing that multiplies.
- multipolar — having several or many poles.
- multipower — Of or pertaining to more than one power (in various senses).
- multiproxy — Involving multiple proxies.
- multisport — designed or used for a variety of sports.
- nephridium — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- omniparous — producing or generating all things
- opium wars — 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.
- opprobrium — the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy.
- outpromise — to promise more than
- panaritium — a whitlow
- pancratium — (in ancient Greece) an athletic contest combining wrestling and boxing.
- paramecium — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
- parapodium — one of the unjointed rudimentary limbs or processes of locomotion of many worms, as annelids.
- parimutuel — a system of betting on races in which those backing the winners divide, in proportion to their wagers, the total amount bet, minus a percentage for the track operators, taxes, etc.
- part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
- pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
- per curiam — by the court
- peridinium — a member of the Peridinium genus of marine- or freshwater-dwelling dinoflagellate organisms characterized by armoured plates
- perigonium — the envelope of modified leaves surrounding the antheridia in mosses.
- perimysium — the connective tissue surrounding bundles of skeletal muscle fibers.
- periosteum — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- peritoneum — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- pickup arm — tone arm.
- plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
- poculiform — having the shape of a cup; cup-shaped.
- pomiferous — bearing pomes or pomelike fruits.
- praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
- praemunire — a writ charging the offense of resorting to a foreign court or authority, as that of the pope, and thus calling in question the supremacy of the English crown.
- praetorium — (in Roman history) the headquarters or residence of a Roman official, governor or military commander
- presurmise — a surmise previously formed.
- primaquine — a viscous liquid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O, used in the treatment of malaria.
- primordium — the first recognizable, histologically differentiated stage in the development of an organ.
- principium — a principle.
- procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
- promethium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element. Symbol: Pm; atomic number: 61.
- proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
- prostomium — the unsegmented, preoral portion of the head of certain lower invertebrates.
- psalterium — the omasum.
- puerperium — the four-week period following childbirth.
- pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
- pumpkineer — pumpkin
- punctiform — shaped like or of the nature of a point or dot.
- puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- resumptive — that summarizes: a resumptive statement.
- simon pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- simon-pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.