9-letter words containing i, m, p, a, r
- impleader — a procedural method by which an original party to an action may bring in and make a claim against a third party in connection with the claim made against the original party.
- important — of much or great significance or consequence: an important event in world history.
- imprecate — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- mail drop — a receptacle or one of a series of pigeonholelike slots, as in an office, into which incoming mail is placed for pickup.
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- manipular — of or relating to the Roman maniple.
- mapepires — Plural form of mapepire.
- marigraph — a device that automatically registers the rise and fall of the tide.
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
- marsupium — the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial.
- mayorship — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- mcpartlin — Antony. born 1975, British television presenter, who appears with Declan Donnelly as Ant and Dec
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- merit pay — an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.
- meropidan — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae
- metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
- micro-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a very small market capitalization, usually under $250 million.
- micropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
- midspread — (statistics) The interquartile range.
- miniparks — Plural form of minipark.
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly
- mispraise — to praise wrongly or mistakenly
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- mixer tap — a tap in which hot and cold water supplies have a joint outlet but are controlled separately
- multipara — a woman who has borne two or more children, or who is parturient for the second time.
- multipart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- myriapods — Plural form of myriapod.
- omnigraph — a device for converting Morse Code signals that are punched on a tape into audio signals, used in the training of telegraph operators.
- opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panoramic — an unobstructed and wide view of an extensive area in all directions.
- papermail — snail mail
- paramecia — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
- paramedic — Military. a medic in the paratroops.
- pariahdom — an outcast.
- pariahism — an outcast.
- paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
- parseeism — the religion and customs of the Parsees.
- parsimony — extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
- part-time — employed to work, used, expected to function, etc., less than the usual or full time: a part-time clerk.