9-letter words containing p, m, a
- palm crab — coconut crab.
- palm leaf — the leaf or frond of a palm tree, especially that of a fan palm, used in making fans, hats, thatch, mats, etc.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- palmately — radiating from a central point
- palmation — a palmate state or formation.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- palmitate — a salt or ester of palmitic acid.
- pampeluna — Pamplona.
- pamphylia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pampootie — a rawhide slipper worn by men in the Aran Islands
- pan-human — of, relating to, or affecting all humanity.
- pancosmic — of every cosmos
- pandemian — sensual
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
- panlogism — the doctrine that the universe is a realization or act of the logos.
- panmictic — random mating of individuals within a population, the breeding individuals showing no tendency to choose partners with particular traits.
- panmunjom — a small community along the boundary between North Korea and South Korea: site of the truce talks at the close of the Korean War.
- panoramic — an unobstructed and wide view of an extensive area in all directions.
- pantagamy — a communal marriage system amongst members of a community or household
- 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.
- pantryman — a person who works in or has charge of a pantry, as aboard ship or in a hospital.
- 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.
- papermail — snail mail
- papilloma — a benign tumor of the skin or mucous membrane consisting of hypertrophied epithelial tissue, as a wart.
- paramatta — a light, twilled dress fabric, having a silk or cotton warp and a woolen weft.
- paramecia — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
- paramedic — Military. a medic in the paratroops.
- parameter — formal argument
- paramorph — a pseudomorph formed by a change in crystal structure but not in chemical composition.
- paramount — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- paramylum — a polysaccharide occurring as a reserve carbohydrate in the cytoplasm of Euglena
- paranymph — a groomsman or a bridesmaid.
- pararhyme — a part-rhyme in which the consonants are the same but the vowels are different
- parchment — the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
- pariahdom — an outcast.
- pariahism — an outcast.
- parlement — parliament.
- parma ham — cured ham from Italy
- paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
- parseeism — the religion and customs of the Parsees.
- parsimony — extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
- part-time — employed to work, used, expected to function, etc., less than the usual or full time: a part-time clerk.
- party man — a person belonging to a political party, especially one who adheres strictly or blindly to its principles and policies.
- pass mark — the minimum mark required to pass an examination
- passament — passement.
- passement — a garment trimming of gold, silver, linen, or silk thread.