9-letter words containing a, p, l, m
- pot metal — an alloy of copper and lead, formerly used for making plumbing fixtures, bearings, etc.
- pre-alarm — an automatic device that serves to call attention, to rouse from sleep, or to warn of fire, smoke, an intruder, etc.
- preambled — an introductory statement; preface; introduction. Synonyms: opening, beginning; foreword, prologue, prelude. Antonyms: epilogue, appendix, conclusion, afterword, closing.
- 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.
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- premortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- primaeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- primality — the state of being primal
- primarily — essentially; mostly; chiefly; principally: They live primarily from farming.
- primatial — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primitial — relating to primitiae
- prodromal — a premonitory symptom.
- profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
- prolamine — any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- psalmbook — a book containing psalms for liturgical or devotional use.
- ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
- pyelogram — an x-ray produced by pyelography.
- pygmalion — Classical Mythology. a sculptor and king of Cyprus who carved an ivory statue of a maiden and fell in love with it. It was brought to life, in response to his prayer, by Aphrodite.
- pyramidal — of, relating to, or shaped like a pyramid: the pyramidal form.
- red maple — a tree, Acer rubrum, of eastern North America, growing in moist soil and usually having red flowers and leaves that turn bright red in autumn.
- reimplant — Surgery. to restore (a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure) to its original site.
- resampled — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
- s & l — S & L is an abbreviation for savings and loan.
- sago palm — any of several tropical Old World palms, as of the genera Metroxylon and Caryota, that yield sago.
- small-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of under $1 billion: considered to have more growth potential and higher investment risk.
- someplace — somewhere.
- spiralism — an individual's ascent in spiral structure
- spoilsman — a person who seeks or receives a share in political spoils.
- stampless — without a stamp
- subprimal — (of meat) being a cut of meat larger than a steak, roast, or other single cut but smaller than a side of beef: shipped by the packer to local markets for final cutting to reduce processing costs and to retard spoilage.
- subsample — a specimen from or a small part of a sample.
- sugarplum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
- supermale — a person bearing an X and Y chromosome pair in the cell nuclei and normally having a penis, scrotum, and testicles, and developing hair on the face at adolescence; a boy or man.
- swampland — land or an area covered with swamps.
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- syphiloma — a tumour or gumma caused by infection with syphilis
- teleplasm — a hypothetical emanation from the body of a medium that serves as the means for telekinesis.
- time lamp — an oil lamp of the 17th and 18th centuries, burning at a fixed rate and having a reservoir graduated in units of time.
- tram flap — transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap: a piece of tissue, consisting of skin, muscle, and fat, taken from the abdomen of a woman and used in the reconstruction of her breast after mastectomy
- triumphal — of, pertaining to, celebrating, or commemorating a triumph or victory: a triumphal banquet; a triumphal ode.
- unclamped — to fasten with or fix in a clamp.
- unsampled — undemonstrated
- vampishly — in a vampish manner
- verapamil — a white crystalline powder, C 27 H 38 N 2 O 4 , used as a calcium blocker in the treatment of angina and certain arrhythmias.
- wall lamp — wall-mounted light
- wine palm — any of several palms from whose sap wine is made, as the coquito.