9-letter words containing a, n, e, m, o, t
- erotomane — A person with excessive sexual desire.
- font name — a Christian name; baptismal name; first name.
- gemmation — reproduction by gemmae.
- geomantic — Of or relating to geomancy.
- haptonema — In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
- harmonite — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- heat-moon — William Least [leest] /list/ (Show IPA), (William Trogden) born 1939, U.S. writer.
- homestand — (baseball) A series of games played at a team's home field.
- jambstone — a stone, or one of the stones, forming one jamb of an opening.
- jamestown — a British island in the S Atlantic: Napoleon's place of exile 1815–21. 47 sq. mi. (122 sq. km).
- jasmonate — a hormone that regulates plant growth
- ketonemia — the presence of ketone bodies in the blood.
- lemon tea — a hot drink that contains lemon juice or tastes of lemon
- 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.
- mahometan — a name formerly in Western usage but never used among Muslims for the Muslim religion
- maidstone — a city in Kent, in SE England.
- maintenon — Marquise de (Françoise d'Aubigné) 1635–1719, second wife of Louis XIV.
- mammonite — the greedy pursuit of riches.
- mangetout — A vegetable pea eaten when immature.
- manifesto — a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.
- manometer — an instrument for measuring the pressure of a fluid, consisting of a tube filled with a liquid, the level of the liquid being determined by the fluid pressure and the height of the liquid being indicated on a scale.
- manometry — an instrument for measuring the pressure of a fluid, consisting of a tube filled with a liquid, the level of the liquid being determined by the fluid pressure and the height of the liquid being indicated on a scale.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- mantyhose — a one-piece clinging garment covering the body from the waist to the feet, worn by men
- marlstone — an indurated marl.
- mash note — an effusive note or letter expressing affection or passion for the recipient, usually a stranger or someone known only casually
- masterson — William Barclay ("Bat") 1853–1921, U.S. frontier law officer.
- matfellon — knapweed
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- matronage — the state of being a matron.
- matronize — to cause to become matronly; cause to act as, or fulfill the role of, matron.
- mediation — action in mediating between parties, as to effect an agreement or reconciliation.
- megatonic — one million tons.
- melanotic — of or affected with melanosis.
- melatonin — a hormone secreted by the pineal gland in inverse proportion to the amount of light received by the retina, important in the regulation of biorhythms: in amphibians, it causes a lightening of the skin.
- mentation — mental activity.
- mentorial — Of or relating to a mentor.
- mestranol — an estrogen, C 2 1 H 2 6 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives in combination with a progestin.
- metagnomy — (rare) divination.
- 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].
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- metazoans — Plural form of metazoan.
- methadone — a synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 8 ClNO, similar to morphine but effective orally, used in the relief of pain and as a heroin substitute in the treatment of heroin addiction.
- minnesota — a state in the N central United States. 84,068 sq. mi. (217,735 sq. km). Capital: St. Paul. Abbreviation: MN (for use with zip code), Minn.
- momentary — lasting but a moment; very brief; fleeting: a momentary glimpse.
- monacetin — acetin.
- monastery — a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- montadale — one of a breed of white-faced, hornless sheep developed in the U.S. by crossing Cheviot rams and Columbia ewes, noted for their meat and heavy fleece.
- montaigne — Michel Eyquem [mee-shel e-kem] /miˈʃɛl ɛˈkɛm/ (Show IPA), Seigneur de, 1533–92, French essayist.
- montespan — Marquise de (Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart) 1641–1707, mistress of Louis XIV of France.