9-letter words containing m, a, e, l
- nominable — capable of, or worthy of, being named
- non-metal — an element not having the character of a metal, as carbon or nitrogen.
- nonmental — Not mental (concerned with the mind).
- nonmetals — an element not having the character of a metal, as carbon or nitrogen.
- normalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of normalize.
- normalize — to make normal.
- numerable — capable of being counted, totaled, or numbered.
- numerally — According to number; in number; numerically.
- numerical — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- old flame — An old flame is someone with whom you once had a romantic relationship.
- old media — the media in existence before the arrival of the internet, such as newspapers, books, television, and cinema
- oligaemia — a reduction in the volume of the blood, as occurs after haemorrhage
- oriflamme — the red banner of St. Denis, near Paris, carried before the early kings of France as a military ensign.
- outgamble — to defeat at gambling
- outmantle — to be better dressed than
- overclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- pademelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
- palampore — a cotton print woven in India and used for clothing, canopies, etc.
- palembang — a city in SE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- palempore — an ornately patterned Indian cloth; a bed covering
- palm leaf — the leaf or frond of a palm tree, especially that of a fan palm, used in making fans, hats, thatch, mats, etc.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- palmately — radiating from a central point
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmitate — a salt or ester of palmitic acid.
- pampeluna — Pamplona.
- papermail — snail mail
- parlement — parliament.
- pebbleman — DoD requirements that led to APSE. They were written in Jul 1978 and revised Jan 1979.
- pelmanism — a system of training to improve the memory
- pennalism — a system of mild oppression and torment practised upon first-year students of German Protestant universities in the 17th century
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- permalink — a permanent URL that links to a specific web page, typically a single blog entry or news article.
- permalloy — any of various alloys containing iron and nickel (45–80 per cent) and sometimes smaller amounts of chromium and molybdenum
- permeable — capable of being permeated.
- petit mal — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, episodic loss of attention or sleepiness (petit mal) or by severe convulsions with loss of consciousness (grand mal)
- philomela — the nightingale.
- piecemeal — piece by piece; one piece at a time; gradually: to work piecemeal.
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
- place mat — a mat set on a dining table beneath a place setting.
- place-mat — a mat set on a dining table beneath a place setting.
- placement — the act of placing.
- placename — the name given to or held by a geographical location, as a town, city, village, etc.
- placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
- plasmagel — the gelatinous outer layer of cytoplasm of the pseudopod of an ameba, beneath the cell membrane.