9-letter words containing em
- overemote — To display emotion excessive for the situation.
- pa system — a combination of electronic devices that makes sound audible via loudspeakers to many people, as in an auditorium or out of doors.
- pacemaker — pacesetter.
- pachynema — the third stage of prophase in meiosis, during which each chromosome pair separates into sister chromatids with some breakage and crossing over of genes.
- pademelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
- palembang — a city in SE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- palempore — an ornately patterned Indian cloth; a bed covering
- pandemian — sensual
- parlement — parliament.
- paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
- passement — a garment trimming of gold, silver, linen, or silk thread.
- pc-scheme — Version 3.03 compiler, debugger, profiler, editor, libraries Written at Texas Instruments. Runs on MS-DOS 286/386 IBM PCs and compatibles. Includes an optimising compiler, an emacs-like editor, inspector, debugger, performance testing, foreign function interface, window system and an object-oriented subsystem. Also supports the dialect used in Hal Abelson and Gerald Sussman's SICP. Conformance: Revised^3 Report, also supports dialect used in SICP. restriction: official version is $95, contact <[email protected]> See also PCS/Geneva.
- pebbleman — DoD requirements that led to APSE. They were written in Jul 1978 and revised Jan 1979.
- pemphigus — any of several diseases, often fatal, characterized by blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- penstemon — any of numerous chiefly North American plants belonging to the genus Penstemon, of the figwort family, some species of which are cultivated for their showy, variously colored flowers.
- permatemp — a temporary or freelance worker who accepts a series of short-term assignments, thereby continuing on a long-term basis without the benefits of a permanent employee.
- phonemics — the study of phonemes and phonemic systems.
- phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
- piecemeal — piece by piece; one piece at a time; gradually: to work piecemeal.
- placement — the act of placing.
- platemark — hallmark.
- pleaseman — a person who courts favour
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- polemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- policeman — a member of a police force or body.
- policemen — a member of a police force or body.
- polydemic — native to several countries or two or more regions.
- polylemma — a debate forcing a choice between contradictory positions
- polysemic — capable of having several possible meanings
- preempted — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
- premarket — of the period before a product is available
- premature — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- premenace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- premerger — of the period prior to a merger
- premiated — to grant a prize or an award to.
- premiered — a first public performance or showing of a play, opera, film, etc.
- preminger — Otto (Ludwig) 1906–86, U.S. motion-picture actor, director, and producer, born in Austria.
- premisses — Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- premodern — of or relating to present and recent time; not ancient or remote: modern city life.
- premodify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- premorbid — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
- premortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- premotion — a previous motion
- proembryo — any of the stages prior to embryo formation in plants
- prooemion — a preface
- protonema — a primary, usually filamentous structure produced by the germination of the spore in mosses and certain related plants, and from which the leafy plant which bears the sexual organs arises as a lateral or terminal shoot.
- proxemics — Sociology, Psychology. the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
- ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.