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9-letter words containing p, r, o, m

  • picometre — a trillionth fraction of metre
  • pictogram — pictograph.
  • pilomotor — causing movement of hairs
  • piroplasm — babesia.
  • piroxicam — a white crystalline solid substance, C 1 5 H 1 3 N 3 O 4 S, used in the symptomatic treatment of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and other musculoskeletal disorders.
  • pisciform — shaped like a fish.
  • placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
  • planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
  • platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
  • pleiomery — the state of a flower having more than the normal number of parts
  • plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
  • plump for — to drop or fall heavily or suddenly; come down abruptly or with direct impact.
  • pock-mark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
  • pogromist — a person who participates in a pogrom
  • polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
  • polyamory — the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
  • polymeric — of or relating to a polymer.
  • polymorph — Biology. an organism having more than one adult form, as the different castes in social ants.
  • pomerania — a former province of NE Germany, now mostly in NW Poland.
  • pomoerium — the space around a town within the city walls
  • pompadour — Marquise de (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Le Normant d'Étioles) 1721–64, mistress of Louis XV of France.
  • poor farm — a farm maintained at public expense for the housing and support of paupers.
  • porogamic — pertaining to or designating porogamy
  • poromeric — any of various microporous synthetic materials used as leather substitutes.
  • port arms — a position in military drill in which one's rifle is held diagonally in front of the body, with the muzzle pointing upward to the left.
  • potometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of water that a plant loses through transpiration, consisting of a sealed vessel of water with a cutting inserted in such a way that moisture can escape only through absorption and transpiration.
  • powderman — a person in charge of explosives, especially in a demolition crew.
  • power mac — (computer)   Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
  • praenomen — the first or personal name of a Roman citizen, as “Gaius” in “Gaius Julius Caesar.”.
  • pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
  • pre-model — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
  • pre-roman — of or relating to the ancient or modern city of Rome, or to its inhabitants and their customs and culture: Roman restaurants.
  • preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
  • predomain — (theory)   A domain with no bottom element.
  • preformat — to format in advance
  • preformed — to form beforehand.
  • preimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
  • preinform — to supply with information beforehand: He preinformed the newspapers of his decision.
  • premodern — of or relating to present and recent time; not ancient or remote: modern city life.
  • premodify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
  • premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
  • premorbid — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
  • premortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
  • premosaic — of the period before Moses
  • premotion — a previous motion
  • prenomina — praenomen.
  • prereform — of the period before reform
  • pressroom — the room in a printing or newspaper publishing establishment where the printing presses are installed.
  • 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.
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