9-letter words containing p, a, r, m
- graphemes — Plural form of grapheme.
- graphemic — Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
- groupmate — A member of the same group.
- hammerkop — A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the Scopidae family and related to the herons.
- hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- hampshire — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- harrumphs — Plural form of harrumph.
- harumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of harumph.
- hemiptera — the order comprising the true bugs.
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- homograph — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- homophora — A reference that requires some type of general knowledge to understand.
- homopolar — of uniform polarity; not separated or changed into ions; not polar in activity.
- hyper-man — A browser available with Epoch giving hypertext access to the Unix manual.
- hyperemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hypergamy — the practice among Hindu women of marrying into a caste at least as high as their own.
- hypermart — a very large, discount supermarket with a maximum range of products including groceries, apparel and general household goods
- hypoderma — hypodermis.
- impairing — to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
- impartial — not partial or biased; fair; just: an impartial judge.
- imparting — to make known; tell; relate; disclose: to impart a secret.
- impearled — Simple past tense and past participle of impearl.
- imperator — an absolute or supreme ruler.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- impetrate — to obtain by entreaty.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- impleader — a procedural method by which an original party to an action may bring in and make a claim against a third party in connection with the claim made against the original party.
- important — of much or great significance or consequence: an important event in world history.
- imprecate — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- jumpstart — Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.
- kymograph — an instrument for measuring and graphically recording variations in fluid pressure, as those of the human pulse.
- lagomorph — any member of the order Lagomorpha, comprising the hares, rabbits, and pikas, resembling the rodents but having two pairs of upper incisors.
- lampadary — a person who lights the lamps in an Orthodox Greek Church
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lampooner — Someone who lampoons; someone who pokes fun.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- lorazepam — a benzodiazepine drug, C 15 H 10 Cl 2 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly in the management of acute anxiety and for insomnia.
- macro sap — Macro processing modification of SAP. D.E. Eastwood and D.M. McIlroy, unpublished memorandum, Bell Labs 1959. Led to TRAC.
- macrocopy — an enlargement of printed material for easier reading
- macropods — Plural form of macropod.
- macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- madrepore — any true or stony coral of the order Madreporaria, forming reefs or islands in tropical seas.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- mail drop — a receptacle or one of a series of pigeonholelike slots, as in an office, into which incoming mail is placed for pickup.
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.