9-letter words containing e, s, m, p
- neomorphs — Plural form of neomorph.
- neoplasms — Plural form of neoplasm.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- optimised — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
- optimises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimise.
- optimizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimize.
- pa system — a combination of electronic devices that makes sound audible via loudspeakers to many people, as in an auditorium or out of doors.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
- 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.
- pap smear — a test for cancer of the cervix, consisting of the staining of cervical cells taken in a cervical or vaginal smear (Pap smear or pap smear) for examination of exfoliated cells.
- parseeism — the religion and customs of the Parsees.
- passament — passement.
- passement — a garment trimming of gold, silver, linen, or silk thread.
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- pc-scheme — Version 3.03 compiler, debugger, profiler, editor, libraries Written at Texas Instruments. Runs on MS-DOS 286/386 IBM PCs and compatibles. Includes an optimising compiler, an emacs-like editor, inspector, debugger, performance testing, foreign function interface, window system and an object-oriented subsystem. Also supports the dialect used in Hal Abelson and Gerald Sussman's SICP. Conformance: Revised^3 Report, also supports dialect used in SICP. restriction: official version is $95, contact <[email protected]> See also PCS/Geneva.
- peat moss — Also called bog moss. any moss, especially of the genus Sphagnum, from which peat may form.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- pelmanism — a system of training to improve the memory
- pemphigus — any of several diseases, often fatal, characterized by blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- pennalism — a system of mild oppression and torment practised upon first-year students of German Protestant universities in the 17th century
- penstemon — any of numerous chiefly North American plants belonging to the genus Penstemon, of the figwort family, some species of which are cultivated for their showy, variously colored flowers.
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- perisperm — the nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo in certain seeds, and developing from the nucellus of the ovule
- peristome — Botany. the one or two circles of small, pointed, toothlike appendages around the orifice of a capsule or urn of mosses, appearing when the lid is removed.
- persimmon — any of several trees of the genus Diospyros, especially D. virginiana, of North America, bearing astringent, plumlike fruit that is sweet and edible when ripe, and D. kaki, of Japan and China, bearing soft, red or orange fruit.
- peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
- pessimism — the tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad or undesirable outcomes, results, conditions, problems, etc.: His pessimism about the future of our country depresses me.
- pessimist — a person who habitually sees or anticipates the worst or is disposed to be gloomy.
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- petrinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by, or attributed to, the apostle Peter.
- phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
- phenakism — a form of deceit or craftiness
- phonemics — the study of phonemes and phonemic systems.
- phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
- phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
- pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
- plasmagel — the gelatinous outer layer of cytoplasm of the pseudopod of an ameba, beneath the cell membrane.
- pleaseman — a person who courts favour
- plumbeous — resembling or containing lead; leaden.
- plumbless — incapable of being sounded
- plumbness — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- plumpness — well filled out or rounded in form; somewhat fleshy or fat.
- plumulose — shaped like a downy feather or plumule.
- poeticism — a poetic expression that has become hackneyed, forced, or artificial.
- poimenics — pastoral theology.