9-letter words containing a, m, e, t, r
- hexameter — a dactylic line of six feet, as in Greek and Latin epic poetry, in which the first four feet are dactyls or spondees, the fifth is ordinarily a dactyl, and the last is a trochee or spondee, with a caesura usually following the long syllable in the third foot.
- himyarite — one of an ancient people of southern Arabia speaking a Semitic language.
- homecraft — skills used in the home
- horsemeat — The flesh of a horse as food.
- hypermart — a very large, discount supermarket with a maximum range of products including groceries, apparel and general household goods
- imbricate — overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.
- immatured — Not having matured.
- immigrate — to come to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence.
- imperator — an absolute or supreme ruler.
- impetrate — to obtain by entreaty.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- imprecate — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- incremate — (transitive) To cremate.
- inmigrate — to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory.
- intermale — occurring between males
- intermate — To mate with a member of another species or group.
- inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
- jambuster — (Canada, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario) A doughnut filled with jam.
- jetstream — Alternative spelling of jet stream.
- keystream — (cryptography) A stream of random or pseudorandom characters that are combined with the plaintext to produce a ciphertext.
- lamartine — Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de [al-fawns ma-ree lwee duh pra duh] /alˈfɔ̃s maˈri lwi də pra də/ (Show IPA), 1790–1869, French poet, historian, and statesman.
- lamenters — Plural form of lamenter.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- latecomer — a person who arrives late: The latecomers were seated after the overture.
- latimeria — any coelacanth fish of the genus Latimeria
- lattimore — Richmond Alexander, 1906–84, U.S. poet, translator, and critic, born in China.
- letterman — a person who has earned a letter in an interscholastic or intercollegiate activity, especially a sport.
- limewater — an aqueous solution of slaked lime, used in medicine, antacids, and lotions, and to absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
- literatim — word for word and letter for letter; in exactly the same words.
- 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.
- machmeter — a device that indicates airspeed relative to the speed of sound.
- macrocyte — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- macroetch — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- maelstrom — a large, powerful, or violent whirlpool.
- magisters — Plural form of magister.
- magistery — an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.
- magnetars — Plural form of magnetar.
- magnetron — a two-element vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons is under the influence of an external magnetic field, used to generate extremely short radio waves.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- maitre d' — maître d'hôtel (defs 1–3).
- majorette — drum majorette.
- maltreats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maltreat.
- maltsters — Plural form of maltster.
- man-eater — an animal, especially a tiger or lion, that eats or is said to eat human flesh.
- man-hater — someone, esp a woman, who dislikes or hates men
- manhunter — an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
- mannerist — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.