9-letter words containing p, o, m, e, i
- mileposts — Plural form of milepost.
- millepore — a coralline hydrozoan of the genus Millepora, having a smooth calcareous surface with many perforations.
- misemploy — to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
- misopedia — hatred of children, especially one's own.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- misspoken — Simple past tense and past participle of misspeak.
- mock epic — a long, humorous poem written in mock-heroic style.
- money pit — sth continually costing money
- morphemic — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
- multipole — (physics) Any of a several forms of static or oscillating distributions of charge or magnetization.
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- n'importe — no matter
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
- open mike — a session in a pub or club where members of the public are invited to perform comedy or to sing
- open mind — receptive attitude
- opium den — 19th-century place of drug taking
- oppenheim — E(dward) Phillips, 1866–1946, English novelist.
- optimised — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
- optimises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimise.
- optimized — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimizer — A person in a large business whose task is to maximize profits and make the business more efficient.
- optimizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimize.
- pampootie — a rawhide slipper worn by men in the Aran Islands
- panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
- pantomime — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
- paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
- pelviform — basin-shaped
- penniform — shaped like a feather; (esp of muscles) having fibres attached to the tendon in a feather-like fashion
- peperomia — any of numerous tropical and subtropical plants belonging to the genus Peperomia, of the pepper family, cultivated as houseplants for their ornamental foliage.
- perciform — a perch-like fish
- peridrome — (in Classical architecture) a colonnaded walkway running round a building, esp around a Classical temple
- perimorph — a crystal of one mineral enclosing that of another mineral. Compare endomorph (def 1).
- peristome — Botany. the one or two circles of small, pointed, toothlike appendages around the orifice of a capsule or urn of mosses, appearing when the lid is removed.
- persimmon — any of several trees of the genus Diospyros, especially D. virginiana, of North America, bearing astringent, plumlike fruit that is sweet and edible when ripe, and D. kaki, of Japan and China, bearing soft, red or orange fruit.
- pforzheim — a city in W Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- philomela — the nightingale.
- phonemics — the study of phonemes and phonemic systems.
- phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
- picometer — one trillionth of a meter
- picometre — a trillionth fraction of metre
- pin money — any small sum set aside for nonessential minor expenditures.
- pipe bomb — a small homemade bomb typically contained in a metal pipe.
- pleiomery — the state of a flower having more than the normal number of parts
- plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
- pneumonia — inflammation of the lungs with congestion.
- pneumonic — of, relating to, or affecting the lungs; pulmonary.
- poeticism — a poetic expression that has become hackneyed, forced, or artificial.
- poimenics — pastoral theology.