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9-letter words containing p, e, n, m

  • nymphetic — relating to a nymphet
  • nymphette — Alternative form of nymphet.
  • nymphlike — Resembling a nymph.
  • 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
  • open mike — a session in a pub or club where members of the public are invited to perform comedy or to sing
  • open mind — receptive attitude
  • opium den — 19th-century place of drug taking
  • oppenheim — E(dward) Phillips, 1866–1946, English novelist.
  • 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
  • penniform — shaped like a feather; (esp of muscles) having fibres attached to the tendon in a feather-like fashion
  • penstemon — any of numerous chiefly North American plants belonging to the genus Penstemon, of the figwort family, some species of which are cultivated for their showy, variously colored flowers.
  • 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.
  • pentium 2 — Pentium II
  • pentium 3 — Pentium III
  • 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.
  • persimmon — any of several trees of the genus Diospyros, especially D. virginiana, of North America, bearing astringent, plumlike fruit that is sweet and edible when ripe, and D. kaki, of Japan and China, bearing soft, red or orange fruit.
  • petrinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by, or attributed to, the apostle Peter.
  • 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.
  • pheromone — any chemical substance released by an animal that serves to influence the physiology or behavior of other members of the same species.
  • phonemics — the study of phonemes and phonemic systems.
  • phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
  • 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
  • pigmented — a dry insoluble substance, usually pulverized, which when suspended in a liquid vehicle becomes a paint, ink, etc.
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