9-letter words containing p, m, a
- ma-and-pa — mom-and-pop.
- macapagal — Diosdado [dee-aws-dah-daw] /ˌdi ɔsˈdɑ dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1910–97, Philippine statesman: president 1961–65.
- machpelah — the site of a cave, probably in the ancient city of Hebron, where Abraham, Sarah, Rebekah, Isaac, Jacob, and Leah were buried. Gen. 23:19; 25:9; 49:30; 50:13.
- macro sap — Macro processing modification of SAP. D.E. Eastwood and D.M. McIlroy, unpublished memorandum, Bell Labs 1959. Led to TRAC.
- macrocopy — an enlargement of printed material for easier reading
- macropods — Plural form of macropod.
- macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- madrepore — any true or stony coral of the order Madreporaria, forming reefs or islands in tropical seas.
- magmalisp — (language) The predecessor of Magma2.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- mail drop — a receptacle or one of a series of pigeonholelike slots, as in an office, into which incoming mail is placed for pickup.
- mail path — source route
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- main loop — (programming) The top-level control flow construct in an input- or event-driven program, the one which receives and acts or dispatches on the program's input events. See also driver.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- making-up — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- maladapts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maladapt.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- malpighia — (botany) Any of the genus Malpighia of tropical American shrubs.
- malt shop — a retail establishment specializing in serving ice-cream drinks, as malted milks, milk shakes, and sodas.
- man power — the power supplied by human physical exertions: an ancient building constructed entirely by man power.
- manage up — to build a successful working relationship with a superior, manager, or employer
- mancipate — (obsolete) To enslave.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- manhelper — a long pole for holding a paintbrush, used in painting areas otherwise out of ordinary reach.
- manipular — of or relating to the Roman maniple.
- manoscopy — the measurement of the densities of gases
- mansplain — Also called mansplanation [man-spluh-ney-shuh n] /ˌmæn spləˈneɪ ʃən/ (Show IPA). such an explanation given to someone, usually a woman.
- manspread — (of a man) to sit with one's legs far apart, taking up too much space on a seat shared with other people: guys who manspread on the subway.
- mantispid — any neuropterous, mantislike insect of the family Mantispidae, the larvae of which are parasites in the nests of spiders or wasps.
- manyplies — Omasum.
- mapepires — Plural form of mapepire.
- maplelike — Resembling a maple tree or some aspect of one.
- maplewood — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
- mapmakers — Plural form of mapmaker.
- mapmaking — Cartography, the making of maps and charts.
- mappemond — a map of the world
- marchpane — marzipan.
- marigraph — a device that automatically registers the rise and fall of the tide.
- marked-up — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
- marsupium — the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial.
- martemper — (transitive) To subject (steel) to a heat treatment involving austenitization followed by step quenching (at a rate fast enough to avoid the formation of ferrite, pearlite or bainite), used to produce martensite under relatively low stress.
- mast hasp — mast clamp (def 2).
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- matagalpa — a city in W central Nicaragua.