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