9-letter words containing a, t, e, m, p, i
- pampootie — a rawhide slipper worn by men in the Aran Islands
- pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pantomime — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
- part-time — employed to work, used, expected to function, etc., less than the usual or full time: a part-time clerk.
- peacetime — a time or period of peace: a large navy even in peacetime.
- peak time — prime time.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- pegmatite — a coarsely crystalline granite or other high-silica rock occurring in veins or dikes.
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- petit mal — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, episodic loss of attention or sleepiness (petit mal) or by severe convulsions with loss of consciousness (grand mal)
- pia mater — the delicate, fibrous, and highly vascular membrane forming the innermost of the three coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Compare arachnoid (def 6), dura mater.
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- piracetam — a drug used to improve cognitive powers and memory, used to treat stroke victims and sufferers of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, etc
- play-time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pneumatic — of or relating to air, gases, or wind.
- preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- premiated — to grant a prize or an award to.
- primitiae — the first fruits of the harvest
- protamine — any of a group of arginine-rich, strongly basic proteins that are not coagulated by heat, occurring primarily in the sperm of fish.
- proximate — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
- redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- reimplant — Surgery. to restore (a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure) to its original site.
- septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- septimana — a week.
- spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
- spermatia — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
- steampipe — a pipe for conveying steam from a boiler.
- steamship — a large commercial vessel, especially one driven by steam.
- tampering — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tephigram — a chart depicting variations in atmospheric conditions relative to altitude
- 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.
- time span — duration, period
- time warp — a hypothetical eccentricity in the progress of time that would allow movement back and forth between eras or that would permit the passage of time to be suspended.
- timespans — a span of time; time frame.
- trapezium — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
- whitedamp — a poisonous coal-mine gas composed chiefly of carbon monoxide.