9-letter words containing m, l, n
- on-limits — open or not prohibited to certain persons, as military personnel: an on-limits area.
- outmantle — to be better dressed than
- ovalbumin — the principal protein of egg white.
- pademelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
- palembang — a city in SE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- palmation — a palmate state or formation.
- pampeluna — Pamplona.
- panlogism — the doctrine that the universe is a realization or act of the logos.
- parlement — parliament.
- patrolman — a police officer who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
- paulinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by or attributed to the apostle Paul.
- 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).
- permalink — a permanent URL that links to a specific web page, typically a single blog entry or news article.
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- 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.
- placement — the act of placing.
- placename — the name given to or held by a geographical location, as a town, city, village, etc.
- plainsman — an inhabitant of the plains.
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- plantsman — a nurseryman.
- platonism — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- pleaseman — a person who courts favour
- plotinism — the Neoplatonism of Plotinus.
- ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
- plumbicon — a development of the vidicon television camera tube in which the photosensitive material is lead oxide
- plumbness — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- plumpness — well filled out or rounded in form; somewhat fleshy or fat.
- plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
- plutonium — a transuranic element with a fissile isotope of mass number 239 (plutonium 239) that can be produced from non-fissile uranium 238, as in a breeder reactor. Symbol: Pu; atomic number: 94.
- plutonomy — the study of economics or the production of wealth
- policeman — a member of a police force or body.
- policemen — a member of a police force or body.
- pollinium — an agglutinated mass or body of pollen grains, characteristic of plants of the orchid and milkweed families.
- polyamine — a compound containing more than one amino group.
- polygonum — any polygonaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, having stems with knotlike joints and spikes of small white, green, or pink flowers
- polymyxin — any of various polypeptide antibiotics derived from Bacillus polymyxa.
- polyomino — a polygon made from joining identical squares at their edges
- polyonymy — the employment of multiple names for the same thing or person
- 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.
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
- pummeling — to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
- pygmalion — Classical Mythology. a sculptor and king of Cyprus who carved an ivory statue of a maiden and fell in love with it. It was brought to life, in response to his prayer, by Aphrodite.
- quelimane — a seaport in E Mozambique.