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9-letter words containing p, m, a

  • myomorpha — A major division of the rodents that includes the rats, mice, voles, hamsters, and their relatives.
  • myopathic — Pertaining to myopathy.
  • myriapods — Plural form of myriapod.
  • name tape — a fabric tape on which a person's name is written, woven, or printed: for affixing to garments and other personal belongings to identify ownership.
  • name-drop — mention famous person to impress
  • 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
  • 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.
  • noncampus — not located on a campus of a university, corporation, or any other business or organization
  • nonimpact — Not involving impact.
  • nymphaeum — a room or area having a fountain, statues, flowers, etc.
  • nymphalid — a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, comprising the brush-footed butterflies.
  • o & m — organization and method (in studies of working methods)
  • olympiads — Plural form of olympiad.
  • omnigraph — a device for converting Morse Code signals that are punched on a tape into audio signals, used in the training of telegraph operators.
  • omophagia — the eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
  • omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
  • omphaloid — resembling or similar to the navel
  • on-campus — on the area of land that contains the main buildings of a university or college
  • 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
  • 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.
  • opsomania — an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food
  • opthalmic — Misspelling of ophthalmic.
  • optimally — optimum (def 3).
  • p & h — postage and handling
  • p & l — profit and loss
  • p & o — the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
  • p & p — You use p & p as a written abbreviation for 'postage and packing', when stating the cost of packing goods in a parcel and sending them through the post to a customer.
  • pa system — a combination of electronic devices that makes sound audible via loudspeakers to many people, as in an auditorium or out of doors.
  • pacemaker — pacesetter.
  • pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
  • pachyderm — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • 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.
  • packframe — a framework, usually of lightweight metal tubing, that supports a backpack on the wearer, often by curved extensions that fit over the shoulders.
  • pademelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
  • padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
  • 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.
  • palembang — a city in SE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
  • palempore — an ornately patterned Indian cloth; a bed covering
  • pall mall — a street in central London, noted for its many clubs
  • pall-mall — a street in London, England, famed for its clubs.
  • palladium — a rare metallic element of the platinum group, silver-white, ductile and malleable, harder and fusing more readily than platinum: used chiefly as a catalyst and in dental and other alloys. Symbol: Pd; atomic weight: 106.4; atomic number: 46; specific gravity: 12 at 20°C.
  • palm chat — a passerine bird, Dulus dominicus, of Hispaniola and Gonave, in the West Indies, noted for its huge, communal nest, occupied by several pairs of birds.
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