9-letter words containing i, m, p, a
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nonimpact — Not involving impact.
- nymphalid — a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, comprising the brush-footed butterflies.
- olympiads — Plural form of olympiad.
- 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.
- omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
- omphaloid — resembling or similar to the navel
- 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.
- opsomania — an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food
- opthalmic — Misspelling of ophthalmic.
- optimally — optimum (def 3).
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- palladium — a rare metallic element of the platinum group, silver-white, ductile and malleable, harder and fusing more readily than platinum: used chiefly as a catalyst and in dental and other alloys. Symbol: Pd; atomic weight: 106.4; atomic number: 46; specific gravity: 12 at 20°C.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- palmation — a palmate state or formation.
- 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.
- palmitate — a salt or ester of palmitic acid.
- pamphylia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pampootie — a rawhide slipper worn by men in the Aran Islands
- pancosmic — of every cosmos
- pandemian — sensual
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
- panlogism — the doctrine that the universe is a realization or act of the logos.
- panmictic — random mating of individuals within a population, the breeding individuals showing no tendency to choose partners with particular traits.
- panoramic — an unobstructed and wide view of an extensive area in all directions.
- 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.
- pantomime — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
- papermail — snail mail
- papilloma — a benign tumor of the skin or mucous membrane consisting of hypertrophied epithelial tissue, as a wart.
- 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.
- passivism — the quality of being passive.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- patrimony — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
- paulinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by or attributed to the apostle Paul.
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- pay claim — the wage or salary asked for workers by trade union representatives from employers
- peacetime — a time or period of peace: a large navy even in peacetime.
- peak time — prime time.