9-letter words containing c, e, r, m, o
- macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- masoretic — of or relating to the Masorah or the Masoretes.
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- mecometer — a caliperlike instrument for measuring the length of newborn infants.
- mediocris — (of a cumulus cloud) of medium height and often lacking a distinctive summit.
- mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
- mercurous — containing univalent mercury, Hg +1 or Hg 2 +2 .
- meroclone — (biology) A colony-forming stem cell that has a lower growth potential than a holoclone because it is a mixture of stem cells and differentiated cells.
- merocrine — (of the secretion of glands) characterized by formation of the product without undergoing disintegration
- meroistic — (of an ovary) producing yolk and ova
- meronymic — Relating to a meronym or meronyms.
- mescalero — a member of a group of Apache Indians who originally inhabited northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. east of the Rio Grande, have intermarried with the Chiricahua and Lipan, and are presently situated in New Mexico.
- mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- mestrovic — Ivan [ahy-vuh n Serbo-Croatian. ee-vahn] /ˈaɪ vən Serbo-Croatian. ˈi vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1883–1962, Yugoslav sculptor, in the U.S. after 1946.
- metalcore — (music) A genre of rock music related to punk and heavy metal.
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- microbeam — (physics) A beam having a small cross section.
- microbrew — beer brewed in a microbrewery.
- microcode — one or more microinstructions.
- microcyte — Pathology. an abnormally small red blood cell.
- microdose — (medicine) A very low dose (especially of radiation therapy).
- microlite — any microscopic crystal.
- micromere — a small blastomere, as one of those that form toward the animal pole in embryos that undergo unequal cleavage or those that occur in the embryo of mammals.
- micromesh — a very fine mesh
- micromole — (chemistry, physics) One millionth of a mole.
- micronise — (British) To reduce in size often to micrometer scale.
- micronize — Break (a substance) into very fine particles.
- micropore — a tiny opening, as in specialized biological filters or in the shells of some animals.
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- microreid — /mi:'kroh-reed/ See bogosity.
- microserf — (jargon) Wired magazine's term for a Microsoft employee.
- microsite — (Internet) A self-contained page or group of pages meant to supplement a larger website.
- microsome — a small inclusion, consisting of ribosomes and fragments of the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria, in the cytoplasm of a cell.
- 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.
- microtome — an instrument for cutting very thin sections, as of organic tissue, for microscopic examination.
- microtone — any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
- microtube — A microscopic tube, especially one used in the construction of specialized lasers.
- microwave — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- microwire — A very small diameter wire, especially one with a glass coating.
- microzyme — (biology, dated) A microorganism supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism.
- midcourse — the middle of a course.
- misoclere — hostile to clergy
- misreckon — (transitive) To add (something) up incorrectly, make a wrong calculation of (an amount etc.).
- misrecord — (transitive) To record incorrectly.
- mockeries — Plural form of mockery.
- mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.