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9-letter words containing u, m, p, i

  • multilisp — (language)   A parallel extension of Scheme with explicit concurrency. The form (future X) immediately returns a "future", and creates a task to evaluate X. When the evaluation is complete, the future is resolved to be the value.
  • multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
  • multipage — Including or containing multiple pages.
  • multipara — a woman who has borne two or more children, or who is parturient for the second time.
  • multipart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • multipath — a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
  • multipion — involving several or many pions
  • multiplay — Denoting a compact disc player that can be stacked with a number of discs before needing to be reloaded.
  • multiples — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
  • multiplet — a group of several related spectral lines, usually of nearly the same wavelengths.
  • multiplex — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
  • multipole — (physics) Any of a several forms of static or oscillating distributions of charge or magnetization.
  • multiport — Computers. having more than one port.
  • multistep — Involving multiple steps.
  • mumpishly — in a mumpish manner
  • mumpsimus — adherence to or persistence in an erroneous use of language, memorization, practice, belief, etc., out of habit or obstinacy (opposed to sumpsimus).
  • municipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
  • neptunium — a transuranic element produced in nuclear reactors by the neutron bombardment of U-238: decays rapidly to plutonium and then to U-235. Symbol: Np; atomic number: 93.
  • opium den — 19th-century place of drug taking
  • opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
  • pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
  • palladium — a rare metallic element of the platinum group, silver-white, ductile and malleable, harder and fusing more readily than platinum: used chiefly as a catalyst and in dental and other alloys. Symbol: Pd; atomic weight: 106.4; atomic number: 46; specific gravity: 12 at 20°C.
  • 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.
  • pemphigus — any of several diseases, often fatal, characterized by blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
  • pentium 2 — Pentium II
  • pentium 3 — Pentium III
  • penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
  • plumbicon — a development of the vidicon television camera tube in which the photosensitive material is lead oxide
  • 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.
  • plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
  • plutonium — a transuranic element with a fissile isotope of mass number 239 (plutonium 239) that can be produced from non-fissile uranium 238, as in a breeder reactor. Symbol: Pu; atomic number: 94.
  • pneumatic — of or relating to air, gases, or wind.
  • pneumonia — inflammation of the lungs with congestion.
  • pneumonic — of, relating to, or affecting the lungs; pulmonary.
  • pollinium — an agglutinated mass or body of pollen grains, characteristic of plants of the orchid and milkweed families.
  • pomoerium — the space around a town within the city walls
  • pop music — popular music
  • potassium — a silvery-white metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in the air and whose compounds are used as fertilizer and in special hard glasses. Symbol: K; atomic weight: 39.102; atomic number: 19; specific gravity: 0.86 at 20°C.
  • poujadism — a conservative reactionary movement to protect the business interests of small traders
  • practicum — (in a college or university) the part of a course consisting of practical work in a particular field.
  • presidium — (in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries) an administrative committee, usually permanent and governmental, acting when its parent body is in recess but exercising full powers: the presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
  • presuming — presumptuous.
  • presummit — of the period prior to a summit
  • primuline — a synthetic yellow dye
  • promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
  • pterygium — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
  • puerilism — childishness in the behavior of an adult.
  • pumiceous — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
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