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9-letter words containing m, a, p, r, o

  • pariahdom — an outcast.
  • paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
  • parsimony — extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
  • pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
  • patrimony — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
  • patrolman — a police officer who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
  • pauperdom — the state of being a person who is extremely poor
  • peperomia — any of numerous tropical and subtropical plants belonging to the genus Peperomia, of the pepper family, cultivated as houseplants for their ornamental foliage.
  • permalloy — any of various alloys containing iron and nickel (45–80 per cent) and sometimes smaller amounts of chromium and molybdenum
  • permeator — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
  • petrogram — a drawing or painting on rock, especially one made by a member of a prehistoric people.
  • pharmaco- — indicating drugs
  • 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.
  • phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
  • photogram — a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
  • pictogram — pictograph.
  • piroplasm — babesia.
  • piroxicam — a white crystalline solid substance, C 1 5 H 1 3 N 3 O 4 S, used in the symptomatic treatment of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and other musculoskeletal disorders.
  • 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.
  • planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
  • platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
  • pock-mark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
  • polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
  • polyamory — the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
  • pomerania — a former province of NE Germany, now mostly in NW Poland.
  • pompadour — Marquise de (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Le Normant d'Étioles) 1721–64, mistress of Louis XV of France.
  • poor farm — a farm maintained at public expense for the housing and support of paupers.
  • porogamic — pertaining to or designating porogamy
  • port arms — a position in military drill in which one's rifle is held diagonally in front of the body, with the muzzle pointing upward to the left.
  • powderman — a person in charge of explosives, especially in a demolition crew.
  • power mac — (computer)   Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
  • 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.
  • preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
  • predomain — (theory)   A domain with no bottom element.
  • preformat — to format in advance
  • premortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
  • premosaic — of the period before Moses
  • prenomina — praenomen.
  • primordia — the first recognizable, histologically differentiated stage in the development of an organ.
  • pro forma — according to form; as a matter of form; for the sake of form.
  • procambia — plant part in stem and root
  • prodromal — a premonitory symptom.
  • profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
  • proformas — according to form; as a matter of form; for the sake of form.
  • progamete — a cell that is the precursor of one ovum or many spermatozoa; a spermatocyte or oocyte.
  • programed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
  • programer — a person who writes code for computer programs.
  • programme — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
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