9-letter words containing m, i, l, e, p
- misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
- misplease — (transitive) To fail in pleasing; displease.
- misspells — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misspell.
- multipage — Including or containing multiple pages.
- multiples — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
- multiplet — a group of several related spectral lines, usually of nearly the same wavelengths.
- multiplex — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
- multipole — (physics) Any of a several forms of static or oscillating distributions of charge or magnetization.
- multistep — Involving multiple steps.
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- 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
- nymphlike — Resembling a nymph.
- 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.
- papermail — snail mail
- pelmanism — a system of training to improve the memory
- pelviform — basin-shaped
- 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.
- perilymph — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- permalink — a permanent URL that links to a specific web page, typically a single blog entry or news article.
- 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
- pilgrimer — a pilgrim
- pimpernel — a plant belonging to the genus Anagallis, of the primrose family, especially A. arvensis (scarlet pimpernel) having scarlet or white flowers that close at the approach of bad weather.
- play-time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleiomery — the state of a flower having more than the normal number of parts
- plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
- polemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- policeman — a member of a police force or body.
- policemen — a member of a police force or body.
- polyamide — a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the amide group –CONH–.
- polyamine — a compound containing more than one amino group.
- polydemic — native to several countries or two or more regions.
- polyimide — any of a class of polymers with an imido group: resistant to high temperatures, wear, radiation, and many chemicals.
- polymeric — of or relating to a polymer.
- polysemic — capable of having several possible meanings
- preclimax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- primaeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- primuline — a synthetic yellow dye
- 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.
- ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
- ptolemies — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.