9-letter words containing m, a, n, e, r
- oarswomen — Plural form of oarswoman.
- oenogarum — Garum diluted with wine.
- omnirange — a radio navigational aid in which stations emit distinctive signals on each of 360 degrees, giving the bearing of each degree with reference to magnetic north.
- on camera — a device for capturing a photographic image or recording a video, using film or digital memory.
- on remand — in custody or on bail awaiting trial or completion of one's trial
- on stream — If something such as a new factory or a new system comes on stream or is brought on stream, it begins to operate or becomes available.
- on-stream — in or into regular operation, especially as part of a system, assembly line, or the like: When the new printing press goes on-stream, we'll be able to print twice as many newspapers a day.
- one-armed — having only one arm
- orangeism — the principles and practices of the Orangemen.
- orangeman — a member of a secret society formed in the north of Ireland in 1795, having as its object the maintenance and political ascendancy of Protestantism.
- orangemen — a member of a secret society formed in the north of Ireland in 1795, having as its object the maintenance and political ascendancy of Protestantism.
- orkneyman — a native or inhabitant of Orkney
- ornaments — Plural form of ornament.
- other man — a man who is romantically or sexually involved with another man's wife or lover, especially a man who is having an affair with a married woman.
- overhuman — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- panderism — the work of a pander
- parchment — the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
- parlement — parliament.
- pentagram — a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc.
- 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).
- per annum — by the year; yearly.
- perma-tan — a permanent year-round suntan
- permalink — a permanent URL that links to a specific web page, typically a single blog entry or news article.
- permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- permeance — the act of permeating.
- phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
- phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
- pomerania — a former province of NE Germany, now mostly in NW Poland.
- powderman — a person in charge of explosives, especially in a demolition crew.
- praenomen — the first or personal name of a Roman citizen, as “Gaius” in “Gaius Julius Caesar.”.
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- pre-roman — of or relating to the ancient or modern city of Rome, or to its inhabitants and their customs and culture: Roman restaurants.
- predomain — (theory) A domain with no bottom element.
- premenace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- prenomina — praenomen.
- prolamine — any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- promazine — a compound, C 17 H 20 N 2 S, used as a tranquilizer.
- promenade — a stroll or walk, especially in a public place, as for pleasure or display.
- protamine — any of a group of arginine-rich, strongly basic proteins that are not coagulated by heat, occurring primarily in the sperm of fish.
- protonema — a primary, usually filamentous structure produced by the germination of the spore in mosses and certain related plants, and from which the leafy plant which bears the sexual organs arises as a lateral or terminal shoot.
- prytaneum — a public building in ancient Greece, containing the symbolic hearth of the community and commonly resembling a private dwelling in plan, used as a community meeting place and as a lodging for guests of the community.
- quarrymen — Plural form of quarryman.
- rabatment — the act of rotating a plane to align it with another
- raddleman — ruddleman.
- rainmaker — (among American Indians) a medicine man who by various rituals and incantations seeks to cause rain.
- ramble on — to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner: They rambled through the shops until closing time.
- randomize — to order or select in a random manner, as in a sample or experiment, especially in order to reduce bias and interference caused by irrelevant variables; make random.
- ranterism — a radical 17th-century Christian doctrine based on a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and disregard of formal worship
- ranzelman — a type of police officer responsible for investigating minor crimes