9-letter words containing a, r, c, i, m
- metricate — Change or adapt to a metric system of measurement.
- metrician — a metrist.
- micro-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a very small market capitalization, usually under $250 million.
- microalga — Any of many microscopic photosynthetic protists, often living as single cells and floating as plankton.
- microbars — Plural form of microbar.
- microbeam — (physics) A beam having a small cross section.
- microbial — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- microbian — (biology) Of, relating to, or caused by, microbes; microbial.
- microcard — A small card bearing a microreproduction of text, resembling the microfiche format but on cardboard rather than photographic film.
- microdata — (statistics) data concerning individuals in a trial, survey etc.
- microglia — Glial cells derived from mesoderm that function as macrophages (scavengers) in the central nervous system and form part of the reticuloendothelial system.
- microgram — micrograph (def 2).
- microloan — a very small, short-term loan at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- micropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- microstat — a negative of a microphotograph made directly from a negative by a copy camera.
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
- microwatt — a unit of power equal to one millionth of a watt. Symbol: μW, μ w.
- microwave — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- micturate — to pass urine; urinate.
- mill-race — the channel in which the current of water driving a mill wheel flows to the mill.
- millocrat — a member of a government or ruling class of mill owners
- millraces — (archaic) Plural form of millrace.
- minecraft — a type of warship for sweeping mines at sea.
- minitrack — a system for tracking satellites, space vehicles, or rockets by means of radio waves.
- mira ceti — a binary star one component of which, a red supergiant, is a long-period variable with an average period of 332 days
- miracidia — the larva that hatches from the egg of a trematode worm or fluke.
- mirifical — (rare) miraculous, wonderful.
- miryachit — A disorder found in Siberia, characterized by a jumping motion.
- misandric — One who professes misandry; a hater of men.
- mischarge — (legal or, finance) To charge wrongly.
- miscreant — depraved, villainous, or base.
- miscreate — miscreated.
- monarchic — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
- montclair — a city in NE New Jersey.
- mordacity — biting or given to biting.
- mordicant — Biting; acrid.
- mortician — funeral director.
- mozarabic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Mozarabs: Mozarabic culture.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- mydriatic — pertaining to or producing mydriasis.
- myocardia — the muscular substance of the heart.
- myristica — (botany) Any member of the genus Myristica of nutmegs.
- narcotism — habitual use of narcotics.
- nicknamer — One who bestows a nickname.
- nonameric — Of or pertaining to a nonamer.
- numerical — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- ostracism — exclusion, by general consent, from social acceptance, privileges, friendship, etc.
- overclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- panoramic — an unobstructed and wide view of an extensive area in all directions.
- paramecia — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.