9-letter words containing a, m, p, e, r
- marked-up — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
- martemper — (transitive) To subject (steel) to a heat treatment involving austenitization followed by step quenching (at a rate fast enough to avoid the formation of ferrite, pearlite or bainite), used to produce martensite under relatively low stress.
- md-player — a machine on which you can play minidiscs
- megaspore — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- mercaptan — any of a class of sulfur-containing compounds having the type formula RSH, in which R represents a radical, and having an extremely offensive, garlicky odor.
- mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
- merit pay — an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.
- merneptah — king of ancient Egypt c1225–c1215 b.c. (son of Ramses II).
- meropidan — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae
- mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
- metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
- metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
- metaphore — Misspelling of metaphor.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
- midspread — (statistics) The interquartile range.
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly
- mispraise — to praise wrongly or mistakenly
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- mixer tap — a tap in which hot and cold water supplies have a joint outlet but are controlled separately
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- name-drop — mention famous person to impress
- nephogram — a photograph of a cloud
- pacemaker — pacesetter.
- pachyderm — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- packframe — a framework, usually of lightweight metal tubing, that supports a backpack on the wearer, often by curved extensions that fit over the shoulders.
- 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
- panderism — the work of a pander
- pap smear — a test for cancer of the cervix, consisting of the staining of cervical cells taken in a cervical or vaginal smear (Pap smear or pap smear) for examination of exfoliated cells.
- papermail — snail mail
- 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.
- parameter — formal argument
- pararhyme — a part-rhyme in which the consonants are the same but the vowels are different
- parchment — the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
- parlement — parliament.
- paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
- parseeism — the religion and customs of the Parsees.
- part-time — employed to work, used, expected to function, etc., less than the usual or full time: a part-time clerk.
- pauperdom — the state of being a person who is extremely poor
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- pentagram — a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc.
- 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).
- peperomia — any of numerous tropical and subtropical plants belonging to the genus Peperomia, of the pepper family, cultivated as houseplants for their ornamental foliage.
- per annum — by the year; yearly.