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9-letter words containing p, m, a

  • passivism — the quality of being passive.
  • pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
  • patrimony — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
  • patrolman — a police officer who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
  • paulinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by or attributed to the apostle Paul.
  • pauperdom — the state of being a person who is extremely poor
  • pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
  • pay claim — the wage or salary asked for workers by trade union representatives from employers
  • paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
  • peacetime — a time or period of peace: a large navy even in peacetime.
  • peak time — prime time.
  • peat moss — Also called bog moss. any moss, especially of the genus Sphagnum, from which peat may form.
  • pebbleman — DoD requirements that led to APSE. They were written in Jul 1978 and revised Jan 1979.
  • pedantism — pedantry.
  • pegmatite — a coarsely crystalline granite or other high-silica rock occurring in veins or dikes.
  • 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).
  • peperomia — any of numerous tropical and subtropical plants belonging to the genus Peperomia, of the pepper family, cultivated as houseplants for their ornamental foliage.
  • per annum — by the year; yearly.
  • periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
  • perma-tan — a permanent year-round suntan
  • permabear — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will fall
  • permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
  • permalink — a permanent URL that links to a specific web page, typically a single blog entry or news article.
  • permalloy — any of various alloys containing iron and nickel (45–80 per cent) and sometimes smaller amounts of chromium and molybdenum
  • permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
  • permatemp — a temporary or freelance worker who accepts a series of short-term assignments, thereby continuing on a long-term basis without the benefits of a permanent employee.
  • permeable — capable of being permeated.
  • permeance — the act of permeating.
  • permeated — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
  • permeator — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
  • permutate — to cause (something) to undergo permutation.
  • peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
  • petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
  • petit mal — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, episodic loss of attention or sleepiness (petit mal) or by severe convulsions with loss of consciousness (grand mal)
  • 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.
  • phantasma — phantasm (defs 1, 2).
  • pharmaco- — indicating drugs
  • 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.
  • philomath — a person who enjoys learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge
  • philomela — the nightingale.
  • phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
  • photogram — a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
  • photomask — an opaque image on a transparent plate that is used to filter light so the image can be transferred, used in photolithography applications
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