9-letter words containing i, m, p, e, a
- inpayment — a sum of money paid into a bank account
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- lipidemia — (medicine) The presence of lipids in the blood.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- 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.
- mancipate — (obsolete) To enslave.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- manyplies — Omasum.
- mapepires — Plural form of mapepire.
- maplelike — Resembling a maple tree or some aspect of one.
- megalopia — macropsia.
- megalopic — having large eyes
- 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.
- megapolis — megalopolis.
- 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
- messapian — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
- 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.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- mishappen — (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
- misopedia — hatred of children, especially one's own.
- mispacked — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly
- misplaced — to put in a wrong place.
- misplaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misplace.
- misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
- misplease — (transitive) To fail in pleasing; displease.
- mispraise — to praise wrongly or mistakenly
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- misshaped — Simple past tense and past participle of misshape.
- misshapen — badly shaped; deformed.
- misshapes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misshape.
- mixer tap — a tap in which hot and cold water supplies have a joint outlet but are controlled separately
- multipage — Including or containing multiple pages.
- 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
- omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmitate — a salt or ester of palmitic acid.
- pampootie — a rawhide slipper worn by men in the Aran Islands
- pandemian — sensual
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
- 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.