9-letter words containing p, a, s, m, e
- mishappen — (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
- misopedia — hatred of children, especially one's own.
- mispacked — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly
- misplaced — to put in a wrong place.
- misplaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misplace.
- misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
- misplease — (transitive) To fail in pleasing; displease.
- mispraise — to praise wrongly or mistakenly
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- misshaped — Simple past tense and past participle of misshape.
- misshapen — badly shaped; deformed.
- misshapes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misshape.
- monophase — (electricity) Having a single phase of alternating current.
- monospace — Of a typeface, having the same width for each character.
- montespan — Marquise de (Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart) 1641–1707, mistress of Louis XIV of France.
- moonphase — a phase of the moon
- moonscape — the general appearance of the surface of the moon.
- mouse pad — mouse mat
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
- namespace — (computing) A conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that have the same names.
- neoplasms — Plural form of neoplasm.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- pa system — a combination of electronic devices that makes sound audible via loudspeakers to many people, as in an auditorium or out of doors.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
- 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.
- 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.
- parseeism — the religion and customs of the Parsees.
- passament — passement.
- passement — a garment trimming of gold, silver, linen, or silk thread.
- 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.
- peat moss — Also called bog moss. any moss, especially of the genus Sphagnum, from which peat may form.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- 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
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
- phenakism — a form of deceit or craftiness
- phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
- pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
- plasmagel — the gelatinous outer layer of cytoplasm of the pseudopod of an ameba, beneath the cell membrane.
- pleaseman — a person who courts favour
- pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.