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9-letter words containing a, r, m, o

  • macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
  • macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
  • macrotape — (storage)   /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
  • macrotous — having large ears
  • macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
  • madarosis — the abnormal loss of eyebrows or eyelashes
  • madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
  • madrepore — any true or stony coral of the order Madreporaria, forming reefs or islands in tropical seas.
  • madrileno — a native or inhabitant of Madrid, Spain.
  • maelstrom — a large, powerful, or violent whirlpool.
  • 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.
  • mail drop — a receptacle or one of a series of pigeonholelike slots, as in an office, into which incoming mail is placed for pickup.
  • mail room — sorting office for post
  • maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
  • mailorder — Ordered to be delivered to one's home.
  • mailrooms — Plural form of mailroom.
  • main door — the principal or largest door that is used to enter a building which has more than one door
  • main road — principal street
  • mainboard — (computing) motherboard.
  • major key — a key whose essential harmony is based on the major scale.
  • majordomo — The head servant or official in a royal Spanish or Italian household; later, any head servant in a wealthy household in a foreign country; a leading servant or butler.
  • majorette — drum majorette.
  • make over — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • make-work — work, usually of little importance, created to keep a person from being idle or unemployed.
  • makeovers — Plural form of makeover.
  • maksoorah — (in a mosque) a screen or partition enclosing an area for prayer or a tomb.
  • maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
  • malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
  • malaxator — a machine for kneading or grinding
  • malformed — faultily or anomalously formed.
  • malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
  • malleolar — pertaining to a malleolus.
  • malnormal — (mathematics) Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting malnormality.
  • malodours — Plural form of malodour.
  • mamberamo — a river in Irian Jaya, W New Guinea, flowing NW to the Pacific Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.
  • mammiform — having the shape of a breast
  • mammogram — an x-ray photograph obtained by mammography.
  • man power — the power supplied by human physical exertions: an ancient building constructed entirely by man power.
  • mandatory — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
  • maneouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.
  • mangalore — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
  • mangroves — Plural form of mangrove.
  • manoeuver — (nonstandard) alternative spelling of maneuver.
  • manoeuvre — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
  • 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.
  • mansionry — (obsolete) The state of dwelling or residing; occupancy.
  • manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
  • māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
  • māori rat — a small brown rat, Rattus exulans, native to New Zealand
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