9-letter words containing a, r, m, o
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- pock-mark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- 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.
- pomerania — a former province of NE Germany, now mostly in NW Poland.
- pompadour — Marquise de (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Le Normant d'Étioles) 1721–64, mistress of Louis XV of France.
- poor farm — a farm maintained at public expense for the housing and support of paupers.
- porogamic — pertaining to or designating porogamy
- port arms — a position in military drill in which one's rifle is held diagonally in front of the body, with the muzzle pointing upward to the left.
- powderman — a person in charge of explosives, especially in a demolition crew.
- power mac — (computer) Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
- praenomen — the first or personal name of a Roman citizen, as “Gaius” in “Gaius Julius Caesar.”.
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- pre-roman — of or relating to the ancient or modern city of Rome, or to its inhabitants and their customs and culture: Roman restaurants.
- preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- predomain — (theory) A domain with no bottom element.
- preformat — to format in advance
- premortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- prenomina — praenomen.
- primordia — the first recognizable, histologically differentiated stage in the development of an organ.
- pro forma — according to form; as a matter of form; for the sake of form.
- procambia — plant part in stem and root
- prodromal — a premonitory symptom.
- profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
- proformas — according to form; as a matter of form; for the sake of form.
- progamete — a cell that is the precursor of one ovum or many spermatozoa; a spermatocyte or oocyte.
- programed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- programer — a person who writes code for computer programs.
- programme — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- 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.
- promachos — a defender or champion
- promazine — a compound, C 17 H 20 N 2 S, used as a tranquilizer.
- promenade — a stroll or walk, especially in a public place, as for pleasure or display.
- prosimian — belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Compare anthropoid.
- protamine — any of a group of arginine-rich, strongly basic proteins that are not coagulated by heat, occurring primarily in the sperm of fish.
- protonema — a primary, usually filamentous structure produced by the germination of the spore in mosses and certain related plants, and from which the leafy plant which bears the sexual organs arises as a lateral or terminal shoot.
- proximate — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pyelogram — an x-ray produced by pyelography.
- pyramidon — a pedal organ stop made of wooden pipes in the shape of an inverted pyramid
- pyroceram — a strong heat-resistant glass which has been heat-treated so that it is made up of microscopic crystalline domains
- pyromancy — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- pyromania — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- radectomy — excision of part or all of the root of a tooth.
- radiogram — a combination radio and record player.
- railwoman — a female worker on a railway
- rainstorm — a storm with heavy rain.
- ralliform — raillike in shape, anatomy, etc.