9-letter words containing im
- plimsolls — lightweight canvas shoes with rubber soles; sneakers
- poimenics — pastoral theology.
- polyimide — any of a class of polymers with an imido group: resistant to high temperatures, wear, radiation, and many chemicals.
- post time — the time at which the entries in a race are required to be at the starting post.
- pre-image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- preclimax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- preimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- primacies — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- primaeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- primality — the state of being primal
- primaries — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- primarily — essentially; mostly; chiefly; principally: They live primarily from farming.
- primatial — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primavera — a central American tree, Cybistax donnell-smithii, of the bignonia family, having showy, tubular yellow flowers.
- prime rib — beef: meat from ribs
- primipara — a woman who has borne but one child or who is parturient for the first time.
- primitiae — the first fruits of the harvest
- primitial — relating to primitiae
- primitive — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- primitivo — a black grape grown in the Puglia region of Italy, used for making wine
- primordia — the first recognizable, histologically differentiated stage in the development of an organ.
- primuline — a synthetic yellow dye
- prosimian — belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Compare anthropoid.
- proximate — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- proximity — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
- punctatim — point for point.
- quasimodo — Salvatore [sahl-vah-taw-re] /ˌsɑl vɑˈtɔ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–68, Italian poet: Nobel prize 1959.
- quelimane — a seaport in E Mozambique.
- querimony — a complaint
- quicklime — lime1 (def 1).
- quicktime — (graphics, standard, file format, product) Apple Computer's software for playing audio and video. The QuickTime application is a free media player. QuickTime Pro is a paid-for version with editing ability. QuickTime's native format for audio and video is .mov but it can handle many others.
- quitclaim — a transfer of all one's interest, as in a parcel of real estate, especially without a warranty of title.
- re-import — to import back into the country of exportation.
- reacclaim — to acclaim again
- real time — If something is done in real time, there is no noticeable delay between the action and its effect or consequence.
- real-time — of or relating to applications in which the computer must respond as rapidly as required by the user or necessitated by the process being controlled.
- reanimate — to restore to life; resuscitate.
- reclaimer — to bring (uncultivated areas or wasteland) into a condition for cultivation or other use.
- regiminal — relating to a regimen
- reimagine — to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
- reimaging — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- reimburse — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- reimmerse — to immerse again
- reimplant — Surgery. to restore (a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure) to its original site.
- reprimand — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- repriming — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- rituximab — a monoclonal antibody used to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- rudiments — When you learn the rudiments of something, you learn the simplest or most essential things about it.
- sack time — time spent sleeping.
- sakishima — a group of islands in the S Ryukyu Islands, off Taiwan and belonging to Japan.