9-letter words containing g, m, a, p
- kymograph — an instrument for measuring and graphically recording variations in fluid pressure, as those of the human pulse.
- lagomorph — any member of the order Lagomorpha, comprising the hares, rabbits, and pikas, resembling the rodents but having two pairs of upper incisors.
- lamplight — the light thrown by a lamp.
- macapagal — Diosdado [dee-aws-dah-daw] /ˌdi ɔsˈdɑ dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1910–97, Philippine statesman: president 1961–65.
- magmalisp — (language) The predecessor of Magma2.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- making-up — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- malpighia — (botany) Any of the genus Malpighia of tropical American shrubs.
- manage up — to build a successful working relationship with a superior, manager, or employer
- mapmaking — Cartography, the making of maps and charts.
- marigraph — a device that automatically registers the rise and fall of the tide.
- matagalpa — a city in W central Nicaragua.
- megaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megalopia — macropsia.
- megalopic — having large eyes
- megapenny — /meg'*-pen"ee/ $10,000 (1 cent * 10^6). Used semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer cost and performance figures.
- megaphone — a cone-shaped device for magnifying or directing the voice, chiefly used in addressing a large audience out of doors or in calling to someone at a distance. Compare bullhorn.
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- megapixel — a unit equal to one million pixels, used to measure the resolution of a digital image: My camera has a resolution of 12 megapixels.
- megapodes — Plural form of megapode.
- megapolis — megalopolis.
- megascope — A modification of the magic lantern, used especially for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.
- megaspore — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
- monograph — a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.
- monophagy — The feeding on a single type of food (e.g., a single plant species).
- multipage — Including or containing multiple pages.
- mycophagy — the eating of mushrooms
- myographs — Plural form of myograph.
- nephogram — a photograph of a cloud
- nomograph — a graph, usually containing three parallel scales graduated for different variables so that when a straight line connects values of any two, the related value may be read directly from the third at the point intersected by the line.
- 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.
- open game — a relatively simple game involving open ranks and files, permitting tactical play, and usually following symmetrical development
- page mode — 1. (hardware, storage) See page mode DRAM. 2. (hardware) An operation mode of video terminals like the IBM 3270, in which the terminal only sends a completed input screen (page) to the host instead of sending each character as the keys are pressed.
- palembang — a city in SE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
- panlogism — the doctrine that the universe is a realization or act of the logos.
- pantagamy — a communal marriage system amongst members of a community or household
- pegmatite — a coarsely crystalline granite or other high-silica rock occurring in veins or dikes.
- pentagram — a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc.
- peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
- petrogram — a drawing or painting on rock, especially one made by a member of a prehistoric people.
- phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
- phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
- phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
- photogram — a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
- pictogram — pictograph.
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- plasmagel — the gelatinous outer layer of cytoplasm of the pseudopod of an ameba, beneath the cell membrane.
- ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.