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9-letter words containing p, e, a, m, o

  • metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
  • metaphone — (algorithm, text)   An algorithm for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to soundex in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <[email protected]>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].
  • metaphore — Misspelling of metaphor.
  • metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
  • metascope — a device for converting infrared radiation into visible light.
  • microtape — (hardware, storage)   /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
  • misopedia — hatred of children, especially one's own.
  • monophase — (electricity) Having a single phase of alternating current.
  • monoplane — an airplane with one main sustaining surface or one set of wings.
  • 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.
  • mophandle — The handle of a mop.
  • mouse pad — mouse mat
  • mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
  • name-drop — mention famous person to impress
  • nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
  • neon lamp — a gas-discharge bulb containing two electrodes in neon gas and emitting a glow when a voltage is applied across the electrodes.
  • neoplasms — Plural form of neoplasm.
  • nephogram — a photograph of a cloud
  • omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
  • onomatope — (linguistics) A word formed by onomatopoeia or mimesis.
  • open game — a relatively simple game involving open ranks and files, permitting tactical play, and usually following symmetrical development
  • pademelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
  • page mode — 1.   (hardware, storage)   See page mode DRAM. 2.   (hardware)   An operation mode of video terminals like the IBM 3270, in which the terminal only sends a completed input screen (page) to the host instead of sending each character as the keys are pressed.
  • palampore — a cotton print woven in India and used for clothing, canopies, etc.
  • palempore — an ornately patterned Indian cloth; a bed covering
  • palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
  • pampootie — a rawhide slipper worn by men in the Aran Islands
  • panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
  • pantomime — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
  • paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
  • pauperdom — the state of being a person who is extremely poor
  • peat moss — Also called bog moss. any moss, especially of the genus Sphagnum, from which peat may form.
  • peperomia — any of numerous tropical and subtropical plants belonging to the genus Peperomia, of the pepper family, cultivated as houseplants for their ornamental foliage.
  • permalloy — any of various alloys containing iron and nickel (45–80 per cent) and sometimes smaller amounts of chromium and molybdenum
  • permeator — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
  • petrogram — a drawing or painting on rock, especially one made by a member of a prehistoric people.
  • phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
  • phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
  • phenomena — a plural of phenomenon.
  • philomela — the nightingale.
  • placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
  • pneumato- — air; breath or breathing; spirit
  • pneumonia — inflammation of the lungs with congestion.
  • pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.
  • polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
  • polemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
  • policeman — a member of a police force or body.
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