9-letter words containing m, i, p
- optimally — optimum (def 3).
- optimised — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
- optimises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimise.
- optimists — an optimistic person.
- optimized — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimizer — A person in a large business whose task is to maximize profits and make the business more efficient.
- optimizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimize.
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- palladium — a rare metallic element of the platinum group, silver-white, ductile and malleable, harder and fusing more readily than platinum: used chiefly as a catalyst and in dental and other alloys. Symbol: Pd; atomic weight: 106.4; atomic number: 46; specific gravity: 12 at 20°C.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- palmation — a palmate state or formation.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- palmitate — a salt or ester of palmitic acid.
- pamphylia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pampootie — a rawhide slipper worn by men in the Aran Islands
- pancosmic — of every cosmos
- pandemian — sensual
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
- panlogism — the doctrine that the universe is a realization or act of the logos.
- panmictic — random mating of individuals within a population, the breeding individuals showing no tendency to choose partners with particular traits.
- panoramic — an unobstructed and wide view of an extensive area in all directions.
- 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.
- papermail — snail mail
- papilloma — a benign tumor of the skin or mucous membrane consisting of hypertrophied epithelial tissue, as a wart.
- paramecia — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
- paramedic — Military. a medic in the paratroops.
- pariahdom — an outcast.
- pariahism — an outcast.
- paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
- parseeism — the religion and customs of the Parsees.
- parsimony — extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
- part-time — employed to work, used, expected to function, etc., less than the usual or full time: a part-time clerk.
- passivism — the quality of being passive.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- patrimony — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
- paulinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by or attributed to the apostle Paul.
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- pay claim — the wage or salary asked for workers by trade union representatives from employers
- peacetime — a time or period of peace: a large navy even in peacetime.
- peak time — prime time.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- pegmatite — a coarsely crystalline granite or other high-silica rock occurring in veins or dikes.
- pelmanism — a system of training to improve the memory
- pelviform — basin-shaped
- pemphigus — any of several diseases, often fatal, characterized by blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.