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9-letter words containing a, m, p, c

  • packframe — a framework, usually of lightweight metal tubing, that supports a backpack on the wearer, often by curved extensions that fit over the shoulders.
  • palm chat — a passerine bird, Dulus dominicus, of Hispaniola and Gonave, in the West Indies, noted for its huge, communal nest, occupied by several pairs of birds.
  • palm crab — coconut crab.
  • pancosmic — of every cosmos
  • panmictic — random mating of individuals within a population, the breeding individuals showing no tendency to choose partners with particular traits.
  • panoramic — an unobstructed and wide view of an extensive area in all directions.
  • paramecia — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
  • paramedic — Military. a medic in the paratroops.
  • parchment — the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
  • paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
  • pay claim — the wage or salary asked for workers by trade union representatives from employers
  • peacetime — a time or period of peace: a large navy even in peacetime.
  • permeance — the act of permeating.
  • pharmaco- — indicating drugs
  • pictogram — pictograph.
  • piecemeal — piece by piece; one piece at a time; gradually: to work piecemeal.
  • pilcomayo — a river in S central South America, flowing SE from S Bolivia along the boundary between Paraguay and Argentina to the Paraguay River at Asunción. 1000 miles (1610 km) long.
  • piracetam — a drug used to improve cognitive powers and memory, used to treat stroke victims and sufferers of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, etc
  • 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.
  • place mat — a mat set on a dining table beneath a place setting.
  • place-mat — a mat set on a dining table beneath a place setting.
  • placement — the act of placing.
  • placename — the name given to or held by a geographical location, as a town, city, village, etc.
  • 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.
  • plasmatic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
  • pneumatic — of or relating to air, gases, or wind.
  • pock-mark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
  • polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
  • polemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
  • policeman — a member of a police force or body.
  • polygamic — polygamous.
  • pomaceous — of, relating to, or of the nature of pomes.
  • porogamic — pertaining to or designating porogamy
  • 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.
  • practicum — (in a college or university) the part of a course consisting of practical work in a particular field.
  • pragmatic — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
  • preadamic — occurring or existing before Adam
  • preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
  • 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.
  • premenace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
  • premosaic — of the period before Moses
  • primacies — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
  • prismatic — of, relating to, or like a prism.
  • procambia — plant part in stem and root
  • promachos — a defender or champion
  • ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
  • ptomainic — causing or resulting from ptomaines
  • punctatim — point for point.
  • pyroceram — a strong heat-resistant glass which has been heat-treated so that it is made up of microscopic crystalline domains
  • pyromancy — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
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