9-letter words containing a, p, o, m, i
- hypoxemia — inadequate oxygenation of the blood.
- idioplasm — germ plasm.
- impaction — an act or instance of impacting.
- impassion — to fill, or affect strongly, with intense feeling or passion; inflame; excite.
- impastoed — (painting) Painted with an impasto.
- imperator — an absolute or supreme ruler.
- important — of much or great significance or consequence: an important event in world history.
- imposable — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- impotable — (rare) Not drinkable.
- incompact — not compact; loose.
- incompass — Archaic form of encompass.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- liposomal — Cell Biology. a microscopic artificial sac composed of fatty substances and used in experimental research of the cell.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- mail drop — a receptacle or one of a series of pigeonholelike slots, as in an office, into which incoming mail is placed for pickup.
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- main loop — (programming) The top-level control flow construct in an input- or event-driven program, the one which receives and acts or dispatches on the program's input events. See also driver.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- mattaponi — a river in E Virginia, flowing SE to join the Pamunkey and form the York River. 120 miles (193 km) long.
- mayorship — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- megalopia — macropsia.
- megalopic — having large eyes
- megapolis — megalopolis.
- meropidan — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae
- micro-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a very small market capitalization, usually under $250 million.
- micropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
- mishpocha — an entire family network comprising relatives by blood and marriage and sometimes including close friends; clan.
- misopedia — hatred of children, especially one's own.
- monopodia — a single main axis that continues to extend at the apex in the original line of growth, giving off lateral branches beneath in acropetal succession.
- myopathic — Pertaining to myopathy.
- myriapods — Plural form of myriapod.
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- nonimpact — Not involving impact.
- olympiads — Plural form of olympiad.
- 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
- opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- opsomania — an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food
- opthalmic — Misspelling of ophthalmic.
- optimally — optimum (def 3).
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- palmation — a palmate state or formation.
- pampootie — a rawhide slipper worn by men in the Aran Islands
- pancosmic — of every cosmos
- panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
- panlogism — the doctrine that the universe is a realization or act of the logos.