9-letter words containing a, c, e, r, m
- heart cam — Machinery. a cam with a single lobe having the general shape of a heart.
- hectogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- hexameric — Of or pertaining to a hexamer.
- home care — a service provided by a local authority social services department to those whom it judges most need it
- home-care — of, relating to, or designating care, especially medical care, given or received at home: a member of the hospital's home-care staff.
- homecraft — skills used in the home
- ice cream — a frozen food containing cream or milk and butterfat, sugar, flavoring, and sometimes eggs.
- ice maker — machine that makes ice cubes
- icemakers — Plural form of icemaker.
- imbracery — embracery.
- imbricate — overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- imprecate — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- in camera — a judge's private office.
- incremate — (transitive) To cremate.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- lacemaker — A person who makes lace.
- latecomer — a person who arrives late: The latecomers were seated after the overture.
- limerance — Alternative form of limerence.
- lockmaker — a person who makes locks
- macabrely — In a macabre manner.
- macerated — to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.
- macerates — Plural form of macerate.
- macerator — to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.
- macgregor — Joanna (Clare). born 1959, British concert pianist and broadcaster; recordings include the "crossover" album Play (2001)
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- machmeter — a device that indicates airspeed relative to the speed of sound.
- mackellar — Dorothea. 1885–1968, Australian poet, who wrote My Country, Australia's best known poem
- mackerels — Plural form of mackerel.
- mackerras — Sir Charles. 1925–2010, Australian conductor, esp of opera
- mackinder — Sir Halford John. 1861–1947, British geographer noted esp for his work in political geography. His writings include Democratic Ideas and Reality (1919)
- macquarie — a river in SE Australia, in New South Wales, flowing NW to the Darling River. 750 miles (1210 km) long.
- macrocode — a single code that contains a set of instructions.
- macrocyte — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- macrodome — a dome the faces of which are parallel to the greater lateral axis.
- macroetch — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- macromere — one of the large blastomeres that form toward the vegetal pole in embryos undergoing unequal cleavage.
- macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- mainbrace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- manurance — the cultivation or occupation of land
- marcasite — Also called white iron pyrites. a common mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , chemically similar to pyrite but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
- marcelled — Simple past tense and past participle of marcel.
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).