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

  • pennalism — a system of mild oppression and torment practised upon first-year students of German Protestant universities in the 17th century
  • penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
  • 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.
  • petit mal — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, episodic loss of attention or sleepiness (petit mal) or by severe convulsions with loss of consciousness (grand mal)
  • philomath — a person who enjoys learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge
  • philomela — the nightingale.
  • piecemeal — piece by piece; one piece at a time; gradually: to work piecemeal.
  • pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
  • 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.
  • pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
  • piroplasm — babesia.
  • 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.
  • plainsman — an inhabitant of the plains.
  • planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
  • plantsman — a nurseryman.
  • plasma tv — a television set with a flat-panel screen containing many gas-filled cells that are converted into a plasma when subjected to an electric current, forming the pixels of the display.
  • plasmagel — the gelatinous outer layer of cytoplasm of the pseudopod of an ameba, beneath the cell membrane.
  • plasmasol — the relatively fluid, inner cytoplasm of a pseudopod of an ameba.
  • plasmatic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
  • plasmodia — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
  • platemark — hallmark.
  • platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
  • platonism — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
  • play-time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • 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.
  • pleaseman — a person who courts favour
  • ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
  • plumdamas — a damson plum or prune
  • plumulate — covered with soft fine feathers
  • pluralism — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
  • ply metal — a composition of dissimilar metals bonded together in sheet form.
  • pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.
  • 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.
  • polyamide — a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the amide group –CONH–.
  • polyamine — a compound containing more than one amino group.
  • polyamory — the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
  • polygamic — polygamous.
  • polylemma — a debate forcing a choice between contradictory positions
  • polymathy — learning in many fields; encyclopedic knowledge.
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