10-letter words containing c, e, r, i, m
- main brace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- main-force — pertaining to regular military units with standard uniforms and equipment.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- manometric — Of or pertaining to manometry, or measured using a manometer.
- manuscribe — (archaic) To write by hand.
- marcionite — a member of a Gnostic ascetic sect that flourished from the 2nd to 7th century a.d. and that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Christ.
- mariticide — The act of killing one's spouse, especially the murder of a husband by his wife.
- markiewicz — Constance, Countess, original name Constance Gore-Booth. 1868–1927, Irish nationalist, married to a Polish count. She fought in the Easter Rising (1916) and was sentenced to death but reprieved. The first woman elected to the British parliament (1918), she refused to take her seat
- masseteric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the masseter.
- matricides — Plural form of matricide.
- mechanizer — A person who, or machine that mechanizes.
- medicaster — A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge.
- mediocracy — government or rule by a mediocre person or group.
- mediocrely — In a mediocre way.
- mediocrity — the state or quality of being mediocre.
- mercantile — of or relating to merchants or trade; commercial.
- mercaptide — a metallic salt of a mercaptan.
- mercerized — Simple past tense and past participle of mercerize.
- mercerizer — a person who, or a machine that, mercerizes
- mercifully — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- mercurials — Plural form of mercurial.
- meritocrat — a member of a meritocracy.
- mesenteric — the membrane, consisting of a double layer of peritoneum, that invests the intestines, attaching them to the posterior wall of the abdomen, maintaining them in position in the abdominal cavity, and supplying them with blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics, especially the part of this membrane investing the jejunum and ileum.
- mesmerical — Alternative form of mesmeric.
- mesocardia — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
- mesocranic — having a skull with a cranial index between that of dolichocranic and brachycranic skulls.
- mesocratic — (of an igneous rock) composed of light and dark minerals in nearly equal amounts.
- mesodermic — the middle germ layer of a metazoan embryo.
- mesokurtic — (of a frequency distribution or its graphical representation) having the same kurtosis as the normal distribution.
- metaphoric — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metempiric — Of or relating to metempirics.
- meteoritic — (astronomy) Of or pertaining to meteorites.
- methiocarb — a crystalline compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 2 S, used as a nonsystemic insecticide and miticide.
- metrestick — a measuring stick one metre long
- metric ton — a unit of 1000 kilograms, equivalent to 2204.62 avoirdupois pounds.
- metrically — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- metricated — Simple past tense and past participle of metricate.
- metricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metricate.
- metricized — Simple past tense and past participle of metricize.
- metronomic — a mechanical or electrical instrument that makes repeated clicking sounds at an adjustable pace, used for marking rhythm, especially in practicing music.
- metronymic — derived from the name of a mother or other female ancestor.
- metternich — Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von [kley-mens ven-tsuh l ney-paw-moo k loh-tahr fuh n,, loh-tahr] /ˈkleɪ mɛns ˈvɛn tsəl ˈneɪ pɔ mʊk ˈloʊ tɑr fən,, loʊˈtɑr/ (Show IPA), 1773–1859, Austrian statesman and diplomat.
- micro-time — the most accurate expression of a time that a computer is able to produce
- microbeams — Plural form of microbeam.
- microbiome — the totality of microorganisms and their collective genetic material present in or on the human body or in another environment: The wide diversity of species that make up the microbiome is hard to fathom.
- microblade — bladelet.
- microbrews — Plural form of microbrew.
- microbuses — Plural form of microbus.
- microcline — a mineral of the feldspar group, potassium aluminum silicate, KAlSi 3 O 8 , identical in composition with orthoclase but having triclinic instead of monoclinic crystals, used in making porcelain.
- microcurie — a unit of radioactivity, equal to one millionth of a curie; 3.70 × 10 4 disintegrations per second. Symbol: μCi, μc.