9-letter words containing e, m, p, l
- monopulse — a radar transmitting a single pulse only
- mophandle — The handle of a mop.
- mphahlele — Ezekiel (Es'kia Mphahlele) 1919–2008, South African writer.
- multipage — Including or containing multiple pages.
- multiples — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
- multiplet — a group of several related spectral lines, usually of nearly the same wavelengths.
- multiplex — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
- multipole — (physics) Any of a several forms of static or oscillating distributions of charge or magnetization.
- multistep — Involving multiple steps.
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- nameplate — a flat, usually rectangular piece of metal, wood, or plastic on which the name of a person, company, etc., is printed or engraved: She has a large office with her nameplate on the door.
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- neon lamp — a gas-discharge bulb containing two electrodes in neon gas and emitting a glow when a voltage is applied across the electrodes.
- neoplasms — Plural form of neoplasm.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nymphlike — Resembling a nymph.
- operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- pademelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
- palampore — a cotton print woven in India and used for clothing, canopies, etc.
- palembang — a city in SE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- palempore — an ornately patterned Indian cloth; a bed covering
- palm leaf — the leaf or frond of a palm tree, especially that of a fan palm, used in making fans, hats, thatch, mats, etc.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- palmately — radiating from a central point
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmitate — a salt or ester of palmitic acid.
- pampeluna — Pamplona.
- papermail — snail mail
- parlement — parliament.
- pebbleman — DoD requirements that led to APSE. They were written in Jul 1978 and revised Jan 1979.
- pell-mell — in disorderly, headlong haste; in a recklessly hurried manner.
- pelmanism — a system of training to improve the memory
- pelviform — basin-shaped
- pennalism — a system of mild oppression and torment practised upon first-year students of German Protestant universities in the 17th century
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- perilymph — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- permalink — a permanent URL that links to a specific web page, typically a single blog entry or news article.
- permalloy — any of various alloys containing iron and nickel (45–80 per cent) and sometimes smaller amounts of chromium and molybdenum
- permeable — capable of being permeated.
- 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)
- petroleum — oil used for fuel
- philomela — the nightingale.
- piecemeal — piece by piece; one piece at a time; gradually: to work piecemeal.
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
- pilgrimer — a pilgrim