9-letter words containing am
- nitramino — containing the nitramino group.
- nonameric — Of or pertaining to a nonamer.
- noncampus — not located on a campus of a university, corporation, or any other business or organization
- nonfamily — Not a member of the family.
- novodamus — a clause in a charter whereby a grant (particularly of property) is renewed by a (feudal) superior, esp for the purpose of making a minor alteration to the former grant; the charter itself
- o & m — organization and method (in studies of working methods)
- obamacare — a federal law providing for a fundamental reform of the U.S. healthcare and health insurance system, signed by President Barack Obama in 2010: formally called Affordable Care Act or Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
- octameter — consisting of eight measures or feet.
- old flame — An old flame is someone with whom you once had a romantic relationship.
- on camera — a device for capturing a photographic image or recording a video, using film or digital memory.
- on stream — If something such as a new factory or a new system comes on stream or is brought on stream, it begins to operate or becomes available.
- on-campus — on the area of land that contains the main buildings of a university or college
- on-stream — in or into regular operation, especially as part of a system, assembly line, or the like: When the new printing press goes on-stream, we'll be able to print twice as many newspapers a day.
- open game — a relatively simple game involving open ranks and files, permitting tactical play, and usually following symmetrical development
- oriflamme — the red banner of St. Denis, near Paris, carried before the early kings of France as a military ensign.
- origamist — A person who does origami.
- ornaments — Plural form of ornament.
- orthogamy — (botany) fertilization of the ovules of a plant by pollen from the same plant.
- outgamble — to defeat at gambling
- outscream — to scream louder than
- outstream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- p & h — postage and handling
- p & l — profit and loss
- p & o — the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
- p & p — You use p & p as a written abbreviation for 'postage and packing', when stating the cost of packing goods in a parcel and sending them through the post to a customer.
- packframe — a framework, usually of lightweight metal tubing, that supports a backpack on the wearer, often by curved extensions that fit over the shoulders.
- palampore — a cotton print woven in India and used for clothing, canopies, etc.
- pampeluna — Pamplona.
- pamphylia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pampootie — a rawhide slipper worn by men in the Aran Islands
- panoramic — an unobstructed and wide view of an extensive area in all directions.
- pantagamy — a communal marriage system amongst members of a community or household
- paramatta — a light, twilled dress fabric, having a silk or cotton warp and a woolen weft.
- paramecia — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
- paramedic — Military. a medic in the paratroops.
- parameter — formal argument
- paramorph — a pseudomorph formed by a change in crystal structure but not in chemical composition.
- paramount — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- paramylum — a polysaccharide occurring as a reserve carbohydrate in the cytoplasm of Euglena
- parma ham — cured ham from Italy
- passament — passement.
- pentagram — a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc.
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- petrogram — a drawing or painting on rock, especially one made by a member of a prehistoric people.
- 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.
- phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
- photogram — a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
- pictogram — pictograph.
- piracetam — a drug used to improve cognitive powers and memory, used to treat stroke victims and sufferers of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, etc
- piroxicam — a white crystalline solid substance, C 1 5 H 1 3 N 3 O 4 S, used in the symptomatic treatment of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and other musculoskeletal disorders.