9-letter words containing a, m, p, h, o
- metaphone — (algorithm, text) An algorithm for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to soundex in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <[email protected]>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].
- 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).
- mishpocha — an entire family network comprising relatives by blood and marriage and sometimes including close friends; clan.
- monograph — a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.
- monophagy — The feeding on a single type of food (e.g., a single plant species).
- monophase — (electricity) Having a single phase of alternating current.
- moonphase — a phase of the moon
- mophandle — The handle of a mop.
- mouthpart — Usually, mouthparts. the appendages surrounding or associated with the mouth of arthropods.
- myatrophy — myoatrophy.
- mycophagy — the eating of mushrooms
- myographs — Plural form of myograph.
- myomorpha — A major division of the rodents that includes the rats, mice, voles, hamsters, and their relatives.
- myopathic — Pertaining to myopathy.
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- nephogram — a photograph of a cloud
- nomograph — a graph, usually containing three parallel scales graduated for different variables so that when a straight line connects values of any two, the related value may be read directly from the third at the point intersected by the line.
- omnigraph — a device for converting Morse Code signals that are punched on a tape into audio signals, used in the training of telegraph operators.
- omophagia — the eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
- omphaloid — resembling or similar to the navel
- opthalmic — Misspelling of ophthalmic.
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- paramorph — a pseudomorph formed by a change in crystal structure but not in chemical composition.
- pariahdom — an outcast.
- phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
- pharmaco- — indicating drugs
- phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
- phenomena — a plural of phenomenon.
- philomath — a person who enjoys learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge
- philomela — the nightingale.
- phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
- photogram — a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
- photomask — an opaque image on a transparent plate that is used to filter light so the image can be transferred, used in photolithography applications
- ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- polymathy — learning in many fields; encyclopedic knowledge.
- promachos — a defender or champion
- ramamorph — any of a group of extinct Miocene apes of Europe, Asia, and Africa, characterized by large molars and small incisors and typified by the genera Ramapithecus and Sivapithecus.
- ramaphosa — (Matamela) Cyril. born 1952, South African statesman and trade unionist; secretary general of the ANC (1991–97); deputy president of South Africa from 2014
- rhamphoid — beaklike or beak-shaped
- rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
- road hump — speed bump that slows traffic
- semaphore — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- shampooed — to wash (the head or hair), especially with a cleaning preparation that does not leave a soap film.
- shopwoman — a woman who works in a shop
- symphonia — any of various medieval musical instruments, as the hurdy-gurdy.
- syphiloma — a tumour or gumma caused by infection with syphilis