9-letter words containing a, l, m, e, r
- mule-ears — any of several composite plants of the genus Wyethia, of the western U.S., having large leaves and broad flower heads with yellow rays.
- muliebral — womanly nature or qualities.
- mullarkey — Alternative form of malarkey.
- multiyear — Having a duration of multiple years.
- myelogram — an x-ray photograph of the spinal cord, following administration of a radiopaque substance into the spinal subarachnoid space.
- myoneural — of or relating to both muscle and nerve.
- mysterial — (obsolete) mysterious.
- normalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of normalize.
- normalize — to make normal.
- numerable — capable of being counted, totaled, or numbered.
- numerally — According to number; in number; numerically.
- numerical — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- oriflamme — the red banner of St. Denis, near Paris, carried before the early kings of France as a military ensign.
- overclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- palampore — a cotton print woven in India and used for clothing, canopies, etc.
- palempore — an ornately patterned Indian cloth; a bed covering
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- papermail — snail mail
- parlement — parliament.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- permalink — a permanent URL that links to a specific web page, typically a single blog entry or news article.
- permalloy — any of various alloys containing iron and nickel (45–80 per cent) and sometimes smaller amounts of chromium and molybdenum
- permeable — capable of being permeated.
- pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
- 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.
- platemark — hallmark.
- playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- pre-alarm — an automatic device that serves to call attention, to rouse from sleep, or to warn of fire, smoke, an intruder, etc.
- preambled — an introductory statement; preface; introduction. Synonyms: opening, beginning; foreword, prologue, prelude. Antonyms: epilogue, appendix, conclusion, afterword, closing.
- 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.
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- premortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- primaeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- prolamine — any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- pyelogram — an x-ray produced by pyelography.
- raddleman — ruddleman.
- ramble on — to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner: They rambled through the shops until closing time.
- ramillies — a village in central Belgium: Marlborough's defeat of the French 1706.
- ranzelman — a type of police officer responsible for investigating minor crimes
- ravelment — entanglement; confusion.
- reacclaim — to acclaim again
- real mode — An operating mode of Intel 80x86 processors. The opposite of protected mode.
- 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.
- realmless — having no realm
- reclaimer — to bring (uncultivated areas or wasteland) into a condition for cultivation or other use.
- red maple — a tree, Acer rubrum, of eastern North America, growing in moist soil and usually having red flowers and leaves that turn bright red in autumn.