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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.
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