9-letter words containing p, a, r, m
- myomorpha — A major division of the rodents that includes the rats, mice, voles, hamsters, and their relatives.
- myriapods — Plural form of myriapod.
- name-drop — mention famous person to impress
- nephogram — a photograph of a cloud
- nomograph — a graph, usually containing three parallel scales graduated for different variables so that when a straight line connects values of any two, the related value may be read directly from the third at the point intersected by the line.
- omnigraph — a device for converting Morse Code signals that are punched on a tape into audio signals, used in the training of telegraph operators.
- opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- pacemaker — pacesetter.
- pachyderm — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- packframe — a framework, usually of lightweight metal tubing, that supports a backpack on the wearer, often by curved extensions that fit over the shoulders.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- palampore — a cotton print woven in India and used for clothing, canopies, etc.
- palempore — an ornately patterned Indian cloth; a bed covering
- palm crab — coconut crab.
- 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.
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panoramic — an unobstructed and wide view of an extensive area in all directions.
- pantryman — a person who works in or has charge of a pantry, as aboard ship or in a hospital.
- pap smear — a test for cancer of the cervix, consisting of the staining of cervical cells taken in a cervical or vaginal smear (Pap smear or pap smear) for examination of exfoliated cells.
- papermail — snail mail
- paramatta — a light, twilled dress fabric, having a silk or cotton warp and a woolen weft.
- 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.
- parameter — formal argument
- paramorph — a pseudomorph formed by a change in crystal structure but not in chemical composition.
- paramount — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- paramylum — a polysaccharide occurring as a reserve carbohydrate in the cytoplasm of Euglena
- paranymph — a groomsman or a bridesmaid.
- pararhyme — a part-rhyme in which the consonants are the same but the vowels are different
- parchment — the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
- pariahdom — an outcast.
- pariahism — an outcast.
- parlement — parliament.
- parma ham — cured ham from Italy
- 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.
- party man — a person belonging to a political party, especially one who adheres strictly or blindly to its principles and policies.
- pass mark — the minimum mark required to pass an examination
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- patrimony — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
- patrolman — a police officer who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
- pauperdom — the state of being a person who is extremely poor
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- pentagram — a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc.
- 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).
- peperomia — any of numerous tropical and subtropical plants belonging to the genus Peperomia, of the pepper family, cultivated as houseplants for their ornamental foliage.