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9-letter words containing p, o, m, e, r

  • microtape — (hardware, storage)   /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
  • millepore — a coralline hydrozoan of the genus Millepora, having a smooth calcareous surface with many perforations.
  • misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
  • moonprobe — an information-gathering spacecraft designed to pass close by or land on the lunar surface.
  • mopper-up — a person or thing that mops up.
  • moreporks — Plural form of morepork.
  • morphemes — 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).
  • 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).
  • morphogen — A chemical agent able to cause or determine morphogenesis.
  • morphoses — Plural form of morphosis.
  • mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
  • mudhopper — an amphibious fish found on mud flats and in mangrove swamps
  • myxospore — a spore produced within any of various fruiting bodies of myxomycetes.
  • n'importe — no matter
  • name-drop — mention famous person to impress
  • neomorphs — Plural form of neomorph.
  • nephogram — a photograph of a cloud
  • operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  • optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
  • optimizer — A person in a large business whose task is to maximize profits and make the business more efficient.
  • optometer — any of various instruments for measuring the refractive error of an eye.
  • optometry — the practice or profession of examining the eyes, by means of suitable instruments or appliances, for defects in vision and eye disorders in order to prescribe corrective lenses or other appropriate treatment.
  • overtrump — to play a trump higher than (one previously played to the trick)
  • palampore — a cotton print woven in India and used for clothing, canopies, etc.
  • palempore — an ornately patterned Indian cloth; a bed covering
  • paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
  • pauperdom — the state of being a person who is extremely poor
  • pedometer — an instrument worn by a walker or runner for recording the number of steps taken, thereby showing approximately the distance traveled.
  • 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
  • performed — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • performer — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • 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.
  • permalloy — any of various alloys containing iron and nickel (45–80 per cent) and sometimes smaller amounts of chromium and molybdenum
  • permeator — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
  • 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.
  • petrogram — a drawing or painting on rock, especially one made by a member of a prehistoric people.
  • petroleum — oil used for fuel
  • pforzheim — a city in W Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
  • 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.
  • pheromone — any chemical substance released by an animal that serves to influence the physiology or behavior of other members of the same species.
  • picometer — one trillionth of a meter
  • picometre — a trillionth fraction of metre
  • 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.
  • pleiomery — the state of a flower having more than the normal number of parts
  • plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
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