9-letter words containing a, p, l, m
- mossplant — another term for moss
- mphahlele — Ezekiel (Es'kia Mphahlele) 1919–2008, South African writer.
- mud-flaps — a large flap behind a rear tire to prevent mud, water, etc., from being splashed on the following vehicle.
- multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
- multipage — Including or containing multiple pages.
- multipara — a woman who has borne two or more children, or who is parturient for the second time.
- multipart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- multipath — a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
- multiplay — Denoting a compact disc player that can be stacked with a number of discs before needing to be reloaded.
- municipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- nameplate — a flat, usually rectangular piece of metal, wood, or plastic on which the name of a person, company, etc., is printed or engraved: She has a large office with her nameplate on the door.
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- neon lamp — a gas-discharge bulb containing two electrodes in neon gas and emitting a glow when a voltage is applied across the electrodes.
- neoplasms — Plural form of neoplasm.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nymphalid — a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, comprising the brush-footed butterflies.
- olympiads — Plural form of olympiad.
- omphaloid — resembling or similar to the navel
- opthalmic — Misspelling of ophthalmic.
- optimally — optimum (def 3).
- p & l — profit and loss
- pademelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
- palampore — a cotton print woven in India and used for clothing, canopies, etc.
- palembang — a city in SE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- palempore — an ornately patterned Indian cloth; a bed covering
- pall mall — a street in central London, noted for its many clubs
- pall-mall — a street in London, England, famed for its clubs.
- palladium — a rare metallic element of the platinum group, silver-white, ductile and malleable, harder and fusing more readily than platinum: used chiefly as a catalyst and in dental and other alloys. Symbol: Pd; atomic weight: 106.4; atomic number: 46; specific gravity: 12 at 20°C.
- 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.
- palm leaf — the leaf or frond of a palm tree, especially that of a fan palm, used in making fans, hats, thatch, mats, etc.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- palmately — radiating from a central point
- palmation — a palmate state or formation.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- palmitate — a salt or ester of palmitic acid.
- pampeluna — Pamplona.
- pamphylia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- panlogism — the doctrine that the universe is a realization or act of the logos.
- papermail — snail mail
- papilloma — a benign tumor of the skin or mucous membrane consisting of hypertrophied epithelial tissue, as a wart.
- paramylum — a polysaccharide occurring as a reserve carbohydrate in the cytoplasm of Euglena
- parlement — parliament.
- patrolman — a police officer who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
- paulinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by or attributed to the apostle Paul.
- pay claim — the wage or salary asked for workers by trade union representatives from employers
- pebbleman — DoD requirements that led to APSE. They were written in Jul 1978 and revised Jan 1979.
- pelmanism — a system of training to improve the memory