9-letter words containing a, p, m
- exemplary — Serving as a desirable model; representing the best of its kind.
- exit ramp — a short roadway by which vehicles may leave a major highway
- farm shop — a shop that sells farm produce
- film pack — a number of sheets of film arranged one over the other and connected so that they can be exposed successively.
- flashlamp — an electric lamp, usually containing xenon or another noble gas, used to produce a brief flash or pulsed flashes of intense light, such as that used in a camera flash
- floodlamp — Floodlight.
- framepack — a backpack attached to a supporting frame of usually lightweight metal.
- g & s — Gilbert and Sullivan
- g & t — gin and tonic
- galumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of galumph.
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
- game park — a game preserve, especially in Africa.
- game plan — a carefully thought-out strategy or course of action, as in politics, business, or one's personal affairs.
- gazumping — Present participle of gazump.
- gear pump — lobular pump.
- germplasm — Alternative spelling of germ plasm.
- gimme cap — a visored cap decorated with the symbol or name of a product, company, etc.
- glow lamp — a vacuum tube containing a gas that is ionized by the electrons, giving a visible glow.
- grampians — a region in E Scotland. 3361 sq. mi. (8704 sq. km).
- graphemes — Plural form of grapheme.
- graphemic — Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
- groupmate — A member of the same group.
- gum plant — gumweed.
- h & c — hot and cold
- halazepam — a derivative of benzodiazepine, C 17 H 12 ClF 3 N 2 O, used for management of anxiety disorders.
- hammerkop — A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the Scopidae family and related to the herons.
- hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- hampshire — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hampstead — a former borough of London, England, now part of Camden.
- handstamp — an implement for stamping an impression
- haptonema — In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
- harrumphs — Plural form of harrumph.
- harumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of harumph.
- hauptmann — Gerhart [ger-hahrt] /ˈgɛr hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1862–1946, German dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel Prize 1912.
- headlamps — Plural form of headlamp.
- heat lamp — a lamp fitted with an infrared bulb to supply heat especially as part of physical therapy.
- heat pump — a device that uses a compressible refrigerant to transfer heat from one body, as the ground, air, or water, to another body, as a building, with the process being reversible.
- helpmates — (British) Plural form of helpmate.
- hemiptera — the order comprising the true bugs.
- hemispace — the area to either the right or left side of the body
- hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
- hempstead — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- hepatomas — Plural form of hepatoma.
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- hippodame — a sea horse
- hispanism — a movement in Latin America for the promotion of Spanish or of native culture and influence. Compare hispanidad.
- home page — website's introductory page
- homeopath — a person who practices or favors homeopathy.
- homeplace — a person's birthplace or family home.
- homograph — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.