9-letter words containing p, e, n, m, a
- nameplate — a flat, usually rectangular piece of metal, wood, or plastic on which the name of a person, company, etc., is printed or engraved: She has a large office with her nameplate on the door.
- namespace — (computing) A conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that have the same names.
- 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.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nephogram — a photograph of a cloud
- nymphaeum — a room or area having a fountain, statues, flowers, etc.
- 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
- pachynema — the third stage of prophase in meiosis, during which each chromosome pair separates into sister chromatids with some breakage and crossing over of genes.
- pademelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
- palembang — a city in SE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- pampeluna — Pamplona.
- pandemian — sensual
- 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.
- pantomime — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
- parchment — the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
- parlement — parliament.
- passament — passement.
- passement — a garment trimming of gold, silver, linen, or silk thread.
- pebbleman — DoD requirements that led to APSE. They were written in Jul 1978 and revised Jan 1979.
- 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
- 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.
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- 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).
- per annum — by the year; yearly.
- perma-tan — a permanent year-round suntan
- permalink — a permanent URL that links to a specific web page, typically a single blog entry or news article.
- permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- permeance — the act of permeating.
- phenakism — a form of deceit or craftiness
- 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.
- phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- placement — the act of placing.
- placename — the name given to or held by a geographical location, as a town, city, village, etc.
- pleaseman — a person who courts favour
- pneumatic — of or relating to air, gases, or wind.
- pneumato- — air; breath or breathing; spirit
- pneumonia — inflammation of the lungs with congestion.
- policeman — a member of a police force or body.
- polyamine — a compound containing more than one amino group.
- pomerania — a former province of NE Germany, now mostly in NW Poland.