10-letter words containing pr
- lithoprint — Now Rare. to lithograph.
- long press — (on a tablet or smartphone) the act of pressing one's finger down on an icon or other part of the screen for several seconds, as to activate a task or access additional options.
- longprimer — in printing, a size of type intermediate between small pica and bourgeois
- low-priced — selling at a low price; inexpensive; cheap.
- macroprism — a prism belonging to an orthorhombic crystal found between the macropinacoid and the unit prism
- mainspring — the principal spring in a mechanism, as in a watch.
- malapropos — inappropriate; out of place; inopportune; untimely: a malapropos remark.
- marprelate — Martin, the pen name of the anonymous author or authors of a series of satirical Puritan tracts (1588–89), attacking the bishops of the Church of England
- masspriest — a Roman Catholic priest
- methoprene — a synthetic insect juvenile hormone, C 1 9 H 3 4 O 3 , used as a biological pesticide primarily on mosquito and fly larvae to prevent maturing to the adult state.
- metoprolol — a beta blocker, C 1 5 H 2 5 NO 3 , used in the treatment of hypertension, angina, and cardiac arrhythmias.
- microprint — a microphotograph reproduced in print for reading by a magnifying device.
- microprism — a small prism incorporated in the focusing screen of many single-lens reflex cameras. The prism stops shimmering when the subject is in focus
- microprobe — Chemistry, Spectroscopy. a device used to excite radiation by a material in order to determine chemical or elemental composition from the emission spectrum produced.
- milliprobe — an instrument that analyses very small quantities of material
- misimprove — to make worse in trying to make better
- mispredict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
- mispricing — Present participle of misprice.
- misprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of misprint.
- misprision — contempt or scorn.
- misprizing — Present participle of misprize.
- misprogram — to program badly or wrongly
- mompreneur — Alternative form of mumpreneur.
- monoprotic — (of an acid) having one transferable proton.
- mothproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mothproof.
- ms project — Microsoft Project
- muckspread — to muckrake
- multiproxy — Involving multiple proxies.
- mumpreneur — (informal) A mother who works as a business entrepreneur in addition to her family commitments.
- naprapathy — a system or method of treating disease that employs no medications but uses manipulation of muscles, joints, ligaments, etc., to stimulate the natural healing process.
- nerd pride — (body) The Nerd Pride movement, modeled on the Gay Pride movement, was started at MIT by Professors Gerald Sussman and Hal Abelson. Nerd pride paraphernalia includes baseball hats, buttons and - of course - pocket protectors. "My idea is to present an image to children that it is good to be intellectual, and not to care about the peer pressures to be anti-intellectual. I want every child to turn into a nerd - where that means someone who prefers studying and learning to competing for social dominance". -- Gerald Sussman, quoted by Katie Hafner, "New York Times", 1994-08-29.
- net profit — the actual profit made on a business transaction, sale, etc., or during a specific period of business activity, after deducting all costs from gross receipts.
- new-sprung — newly or suddenly come into existence.
- nisi prius — Also called nisi prius court. a trial court for the hearing of civil cases before a judge and jury.
- no problem — any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
- noiseproof — soundproof.
- nol. pros. — nolle prosequi
- non-profit — A non-profit organization is one which is not run with the aim of making a profit.
- nonproblem — a situation, scenario, issue, etc that does not constitute a problem
- nonprofits — Plural form of nonprofit.
- nonprogram — not related to a program
- nonprossed — Simple past tense and past participle of nonpros.
- nonprotein — not protein
- not proven — a third verdict available to Scottish courts, returned when there is evidence against the defendant but insufficient to convict
- objvprolog — Logic programming and object-orientation, an adaptation of the ObjVlisp model to Prolog.
- off-pricer — a seller of off-price merchandise.
- offsprings — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
- omeprazole — a drug, C 17 H 19 N 3 O 3 S, that inhibits the formation of gastric acid, used in the treatment of peptic ulcers and gastroesophageal reflux disease.
- oppressing — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
- oppression — the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.