6-letter words containing a, m, p
- maypop — the edible fruit of the passionflower, Passiflora incarnata, of the southern U.S.
- mencap — a charity that helps people with learning difficulties and promotes their interests in society
- metaph — metaphor
- metepa — a substance, C9H18N3OP, that is used in pest control to sterilize male insects
- midcap — (of investments) involving a medium amount of capital
- midpay — (of an occupation, industry, etc) paying or tending to pay more than an unskilled job but less than a high-income one
- milpas — Plural form of milpa.
- mishap — an unfortunate accident.
- mispay — (transitive) To pay incorrectly, or to the wrong person.
- mobcap — a soft cloth cap with a full crown, fitting down over the ears and frequently tying beneath the chin, formerly worn indoors by women.
- mokapu — a town on E Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- mopane — A tree, Colophospermum mopane, native to Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, Angola and Malawi.
- mopani — a leguminous tree, Colophospermum (or Copaifera) mopane, native to southern Africa, that is highly resistant to drought and produces very hard wood
- mudcap — to blast (a rock) with an explosive attached to it with a capping of clay.
- myopia — Ophthalmology. a condition of the eye in which parallel rays are focused in front of the retina, objects being seen distinctly only when near to the eye; nearsightedness (opposed to hyperopia).
- napalm — a highly incendiary jellylike substance used in fire bombs, flamethrowers, etc.
- nepman — (in the Soviet Union) a person who engaged briefly in private enterprise during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s.
- nympha — Anatomy. one of the inner labia of the vulva.
- onramp — an entrance lane for traffic from a street to a turnpike or freeway.
- oompah — a repetitious bass accompaniment in music typically provided by brasses.
- op amp — An op amp is a high gain amplifier to which feedback may be applied to control and tailor its operation.
- optima — the best or most favorable point, degree, amount, etc., as of temperature, light, and moisture for the growth or reproduction of an organism.
- p-mail — Physical mail, as opposed to e-mail. Synonymous with snail-mail.
- pablum — (lowercase) trite, naive, or simplistic ideas or writings; intellectual pap.
- pactum — a pact
- painim — a heathen or pagan
- pajama — of, relating to, or resembling pajamas: a pajama top; a lounging outfit with pajama pants.
- palama — the webbing on a bird's feet
- palmar — of, relating to, or located in or on the palm of the hand or to the corresponding part of the forefoot of an animal.
- palmas — a seaport on NE Gran Canaria, in the central Canary Islands.
- palmed — having a palm or palms of a specified kind (often used in combination): a wide-palmed hand.
- palmer — Alice Elvira, 1855–1902, U.S. educator.
- palmie — a palmtop computer
- paloma — a female given name.
- pamela — (or Virtue Rewarded) an epistolary novel (1740) by Samuel Richardson.
- pamiri — a member of a Caucasian people inhabiting the Pamirs.
- pamirs — the, a mountainous region in central Asia, largely in Tajikistan, where the Hindu Kush, Tien Shan, and Himalaya mountain ranges converge: highest peaks, about 25,000 feet (7600 meters).
- pampas — a city in N Texas.
- pamper — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
- pamyat — an ultraconservative Russian nationalist organization founded in 1980 and noted for disseminating anti-Western and anti-Semitic propaganda.
- panama — a republic in S Central America. 28,575 sq. mi. (74,010 sq. km).
- panjim — an administrative territory of India, in the W part: formerly Portuguese India; annexed by India 1961. 1426 sq. mi. (3693 sq. km). Capital: Panjim.
- papism — Roman Catholicism.
- paraml — An extension of Standard ML which supports coarse-grained parallelism. Peter Bailey, while at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre at University of Edinburgh, has implemented of Murray Cole's original four skeletons in paraML. See also Skel-ML.
- paramo — a high, cold plateau of South America.
- parfum — perfume.
- parmod — "Parallel Programming with ParMod", S. Eichholz, Proc 1987 Intl Conf on Parallel Proc, pp.377-380.
- partim — in part
- passim — so throughout: used especially as a footnote to indicate that a word, phrase, or idea recurs throughout the book being cited.
- patmos — one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).