9-letter words containing s, a, m, p
- myographs — Plural form of myograph.
- myriapods — Plural form of myriapod.
- namespace — (computing) A conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that have the same names.
- neoplasms — Plural form of neoplasm.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- noncampus — not located on a campus of a university, corporation, or any other business or organization
- olympiads — Plural form of olympiad.
- on-campus — on the area of land that contains the main buildings of a university or college
- opsomania — an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food
- pa system — a combination of electronic devices that makes sound audible via loudspeakers to many people, as in an auditorium or out of doors.
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- pancosmic — of every cosmos
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
- panlogism — the doctrine that the universe is a realization or act of the logos.
- pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pap smear — a test for cancer of the cervix, consisting of the staining of cervical cells taken in a cervical or vaginal smear (Pap smear or pap smear) for examination of exfoliated cells.
- pariahism — an outcast.
- parseeism — the religion and customs of the Parsees.
- parsimony — extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
- pass mark — the minimum mark required to pass an examination
- passament — passement.
- passement — a garment trimming of gold, silver, linen, or silk thread.
- passivism — the quality of being passive.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- paulinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by or attributed to the apostle Paul.
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- peat moss — Also called bog moss. any moss, especially of the genus Sphagnum, from which peat may form.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- 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
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- 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.
- 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).
- phenakism — a form of deceit or craftiness
- photomask — an opaque image on a transparent plate that is used to filter light so the image can be transferred, used in photolithography applications
- phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
- pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
- piroplasm — babesia.
- plainsman — an inhabitant of the plains.
- 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.