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9-letter words containing p, m, a

  • phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
  • pia mater — the delicate, fibrous, and highly vascular membrane forming the innermost of the three coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Compare arachnoid (def 6), dura mater.
  • pictogram — pictograph.
  • piecemeal — piece by piece; one piece at a time; gradually: to work piecemeal.
  • pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
  • pilcomayo — a river in S central South America, flowing SE from S Bolivia along the boundary between Paraguay and Argentina to the Paraguay River at Asunción. 1000 miles (1610 km) long.
  • pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
  • piracetam — a drug used to improve cognitive powers and memory, used to treat stroke victims and sufferers of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, etc
  • piroplasm — babesia.
  • piroxicam — a white crystalline solid substance, C 1 5 H 1 3 N 3 O 4 S, used in the symptomatic treatment of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and other musculoskeletal disorders.
  • place mat — a mat set on a dining table beneath a place setting.
  • place-mat — a mat set on a dining table beneath a place setting.
  • placement — the act of placing.
  • placename — the name given to or held by a geographical location, as a town, city, village, etc.
  • placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
  • plainsman — an inhabitant of the plains.
  • planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
  • plantsman — a nurseryman.
  • plasma tv — a television set with a flat-panel screen containing many gas-filled cells that are converted into a plasma when subjected to an electric current, forming the pixels of the display.
  • plasmagel — the gelatinous outer layer of cytoplasm of the pseudopod of an ameba, beneath the cell membrane.
  • plasmasol — the relatively fluid, inner cytoplasm of a pseudopod of an ameba.
  • plasmatic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
  • plasmodia — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
  • platemark — hallmark.
  • platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
  • platonism — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
  • play-time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
  • pleaseman — a person who courts favour
  • ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
  • plumdamas — a damson plum or prune
  • plumulate — covered with soft fine feathers
  • pluralism — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
  • ply metal — a composition of dissimilar metals bonded together in sheet form.
  • pneumatic — of or relating to air, gases, or wind.
  • pneumato- — air; breath or breathing; spirit
  • pneumonia — inflammation of the lungs with congestion.
  • pock-mark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
  • point man — the lead soldier of an infantry patrol on combat operations.
  • pointsman — a railway switchman.
  • pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.
  • polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
  • polemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
  • policeman — a member of a police force or body.
  • polyamide — a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the amide group –CONH–.
  • polyamine — a compound containing more than one amino group.
  • polyamory — the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
  • polygamic — polygamous.
  • polylemma — a debate forcing a choice between contradictory positions
  • polymathy — learning in many fields; encyclopedic knowledge.
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