9-letter words containing o, n, m, a
- 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.
- prosimian — belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Compare anthropoid.
- 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.
- ptomainic — causing or resulting from ptomaines
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
- 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.
- pyramidon — a pedal organ stop made of wooden pipes in the shape of an inverted pyramid
- pyromancy — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- pyromania — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- railwoman — a female worker on a railway
- rainstorm — a storm with heavy rain.
- ramble on — to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner: They rambled through the shops until closing time.
- ramp down — decrease effort, work
- 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.
- red roman — a marine food fish, Chrisoblephus laticeps
- remontant — (of certain roses) blooming more than once in a season.
- rhodamine — a red dye obtained by heating an alkyl aminophenol with phthalic anhydride.
- roman law — the system of jurisprudence elaborated by the ancient Romans, a strong and varied influence on the legal systems of many countries.
- romanesco — a variety of green cauliflower
- romanised — to make Roman Catholic.
- roumanian — Romania.
- round-arm — denoting or using bowling with the arm held more or less horizontal
- roundsman — a person who makes rounds, as of inspection.
- rovaniemi — a city in N Finland, near the Arctic Circle.
- ruminator — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- salmonoid — resembling a salmon.
- samuelson — Paul A(nthony) 1915–2009, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1970.
- san mateo — a city in W California.
- san ramon — a town in W California.
- sandstorm — a windstorm, especially in a desert, that blows along great clouds of sand (distinguished from dust storm).
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- schoolman — a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.
- sciomancy — divination with the help of ghosts
- scotchman — Sometimes Offensive. Scotsman.
- semantron — a bar struck instead of a bell in an Orthodox church
- seminomad — a person living a partly nomadic life; a semi-nomadic person
- shopwoman — a woman who works in a shop
- showmance — a romance between two stars that only lasts for the run of the show
- showmanly — characteristic of a showman
- sigmatron — a machine for generating X-rays
- simionato — Giulietta [joo-lyet-tah] /dʒuˈlyɛt tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–2010, Italian mezzo-soprano.
- sitomania — abnormal craving for food.
- smackdown — a severe rebuke or criticism: his amazing smackdown of the protesters.
- smorzando — fading away; dying out (a musical direction).
- snowmaker — a machine that makes artificial snow for ski slopes.
- sokemanry — tenure of land subject to the soke of someone else.
- soliman i — Suleiman I.