9-Letter Words Containing: P,R,E,T,E,R,M

• a thermometer designed to measure high temperatures

• The measurement of a perimeter.

• The systematic measurement of light sensitivity in the visual field by the detection of the presence of test targets on a defined background.

• someone who acquires land by preemption

• a bidder in bridge who makes a preemptive bid

• the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

• a line enclosing a plane areas

• the size of something as given by the distance around it

• born after a gestation period of less than the normal time

• too soon or too hasty

• uncommonly early or before the expected time

• a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves

• any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance

• (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program

• a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data

• a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet

• (formal) a person who announces important news

• large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated

• large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry

• disregard intentionally or let pass

• leave undone or leave out