9-letter words containing a, t, e, m, p
- emptional — Capable of being purchased.
- exit ramp — a short roadway by which vehicles may leave a major highway
- groupmate — A member of the same group.
- hampstead — a former borough of London, England, now part of Camden.
- haptonema — In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
- heat lamp — a lamp fitted with an infrared bulb to supply heat especially as part of physical therapy.
- heat pump — a device that uses a compressible refrigerant to transfer heat from one body, as the ground, air, or water, to another body, as a building, with the process being reversible.
- helpmates — (British) Plural form of helpmate.
- hemiptera — the order comprising the true bugs.
- hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
- hempstead — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- hepatomas — Plural form of hepatoma.
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- homeopath — a person who practices or favors homeopathy.
- hypermart — a very large, discount supermarket with a maximum range of products including groceries, apparel and general household goods
- impactite — a glassy or crystalline material composed of slag and meteoric materials, produced by the impact of a meteorite striking the earth.
- impactive — caused by impact: impactive pain.
- impastoed — (painting) Painted with an impasto.
- impatiens — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Impatiens, of the balsam family, having irregular flowers in which the calyx and corolla are not clearly distinguishable and bearing fruit that bursts open to scatter the seeds.
- impatient — not patient; not accepting delay, opposition, pain, etc., with calm or patience.
- impeccant — Without sin; impeccable.
- impennate — (zoology) Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as in the penguins.
- imperator — an absolute or supreme ruler.
- impetrate — to obtain by entreaty.
- implanted — Simple past tense and past participle of implant.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- implicate — to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
- impotable — (rare) Not drinkable.
- imprecate — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- imputable — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- inpayment — a sum of money paid into a bank account
- jump seat — a movable or folding seat, as in a carriage, taxicab, or limousine, used as an extra seat.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- m-payment — a point-of-sale payment made through a wireless device such as a mobile phone or PDA
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- mancipate — (obsolete) To enslave.
- martemper — (transitive) To subject (steel) to a heat treatment involving austenitization followed by step quenching (at a rate fast enough to avoid the formation of ferrite, pearlite or bainite), used to produce martensite under relatively low stress.
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- meatspace — The physical world, as opposed to cyberspace or a virtual environment.
- mercaptan — any of a class of sulfur-containing compounds having the type formula RSH, in which R represents a radical, and having an extremely offensive, garlicky odor.
- mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
- merit pay — an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.
- merneptah — king of ancient Egypt c1225–c1215 b.c. (son of Ramses II).
- metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
- metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
- metapelet — a woman who cares for children, especially on kibbutzim in Israel; foster mother.
- metaphase — the stage in mitosis or meiosis in which the duplicated chromosomes line up along the equatorial plate of the spindle.
- metaphone — (algorithm, text) An algorithm for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to soundex in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <[email protected]>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].
- metaphore — Misspelling of metaphor.