8-letter words containing i, m, p, a
- misspeak — Express oneself insufficiently clearly or accurately.
- misstamp — to stamp badly
- mix tape — a recording on a cassette tape, CD, or digital medium, consisting of music or songs selected by a single person: My boyfriend made me the greatest mixtape for my birthday.
- mixtapes — Plural form of mixtape.
- myriapod — any arthropod of the group Myriapoda, having an elongated segmented body with numerous paired, jointed legs, formerly classified as a class comprising the centipedes and millipedes.
- napiform — round at the top and tapering sharply below; turnip-shaped, as a root.
- nit-lamp — jacklight.
- oil lamp — lamp that burns fuel
- oil palm — an African feather palm, Elaeis guineensis, the fruits of which yield palm oil.
- olympiad — a period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic Games to the next, by which the Greeks computed time from 776 b.c.
- olympian — pertaining to Mount Olympus or dwelling thereon, as the gods of classical Greece.
- omphalic — Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
- opsimath — (rare) A person who learns late in life.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., 2004.
- optimacy — Government by the nobility.
- optimate — a Roman aristocrat
- pacifism — opposition to war or violence of any kind.
- paeanism — the show of a paean
- paganism — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
- palatium — a palace, especially the palace of an ancient Roman emperor.
- paliform — resembling a stake
- palimony — a form of alimony awarded to one of the partners in a romantic relationship after the breakup of that relationship following a long period of living together.
- palm oil — a yellow butterlike oil derived from the fruit of the oil palm and used as an edible fat and for making soap, candles, etc.
- palmiped — a web-footed bird
- palmitic — of or derived from palmitic acid.
- palmitin — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 5 1 H 9 8 O 6 , prepared from glycerol and palmitic acid: used in the manufacture of soap.
- palmlike — resembling a palm
- palomino — a horse with a golden coat, a white mane and tail, and often white markings on the face and legs, developed chiefly in the southwestern U.S.
- paludism — malaria.
- panamiga — a low South American foliage plant, Pilea involucrata, of the nettle family, having toothed, velvety, brownish-green leaves and small, green flowers in clusters.
- pandemia — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
- pandemic — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
- pangamic — relating to pangamy
- panislam — all of Islam or the Muslim world
- panmixia — random mating of individuals within a population, the breeding individuals showing no tendency to choose partners with particular traits.
- papalism — the papal system.
- paradigm — Grammar. a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme. a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.
- paramita — any of the practices prescribed for one aspiring to nirvana.
- paroemia — a proverb; an axiom
- parosmia — a disorder of the sense of smell, especially the perception of odors that are not present.
- partyism — adherence to a political party or organization.
- pashmina — a fabric or garment made from pashm, especially a shawl, wrap, or scarf.
- pastrami — a brisket of beef that has been cured in a mixture of garlic, peppercorns, sugar, coriander seeds, etc., then smoked before cooking.
- patagium — a wing membrane, as of a bat.
- paynimry — paganism
- pearmain — any of several varieties of apple having a red skin
- pelmatic — of or relating to the sole of the foot
- pemmican — dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.
- pessimal — /pes'im-l/ (Latin-based antonym for "optimal") Maximally bad. "This is a pessimal situation." Also "pessimise" To make as bad as possible. These words are the obvious Latin-based antonyms for "optimal" and "optimise", but for some reason they do not appear in most English dictionaries, although "pessimise" is listed in the OED.
- petalism — a form of expulsion that typically lasted for five years and was dealt to those who were seen to have treacherous aspirations and objectives and was carried out in Syracuse in Ancient Greece
- pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.