9-letter words containing c, l, a, m, e
- melomanic — characterized by a great enthusiasm for music
- meloxicam — an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat osteoarthritis
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
- 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.
- mescaline — a white, water-soluble, crystalline powder, C 1 1 H 1 7 NO 3 , obtained from mescal buttons, that produces hallucinations.
- mescalism — addiction to mescal, an alcoholic spirit
- mesoscale — pertaining to meteorological phenomena, such as wind circulation and cloud patterns, that are about 1–100 km (0.6–60 miles) in horizontal extent.
- mess call — a bugle call for mess.
- metabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- metaclass — (programming) The class of a class in an object-oriented programming language. A metaclass is a class whose instances are themselves classes. Typically there will only be one metaclass, called "Class" or similar, which is the class of all classes including itself. In some languages there will be no metaclass. The idea of a metaclass is closely associated with introspection - the ability of a program to access the structure and logic of itself or other programs.
- metalcore — (music) A genre of rock music related to punk and heavy metal.
- metalogic — the logical analysis of the fundamental concepts of logic.
- militance — (uncountable) The condition of being militant.
- mill-race — the channel in which the current of water driving a mill wheel flows to the mill.
- millraces — (archaic) Plural form of millrace.
- millscale — a scale or coating of iron oxide that forms on heated iron or steel on contact with air
- mimetical — Alternative form of mimetic.
- miscalled — Simple past tense and past participle of miscall.
- mislocate — to misplace.
- misplaced — to put in a wrong place.
- misplaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misplace.
- mole crab — a burrowing crustacean of the genus Emerita, found on sandy ocean beaches of North America, having a distinctly curved carapace.
- molecular — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- monocable — an aerial ropeway having a single moving cable.
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- mr. clean — an actual or idealized person with an impeccable record, reputation, or image, especially a politician (sometimes used with Miss, Ms., or Mrs. instead of Mr. when referring to a female).
- munchable — an item of food that can be munched; a snack
- muscatels — Plural form of muscatel.
- muscleman — Informal. a man with a muscular or brawny physique, especially a bodybuilder.
- musicales — Plural form of musicale.
- numerical — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- overclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- piecemeal — piece by piece; one piece at a time; gradually: to work piecemeal.
- place mat — a mat set on a dining table beneath a place setting.
- place-mat — a mat set on a dining table beneath a place setting.
- placement — the act of placing.
- placename — the name given to or held by a geographical location, as a town, city, village, etc.
- placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- polemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- policeman — a member of a police force or body.
- preclimax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
- reacclaim — to acclaim again
- reclaimer — to bring (uncultivated areas or wasteland) into a condition for cultivation or other use.
- rocambole — a European plant, Allium scorodoprasum, of the amaryllis family, used like garlic.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- scrambler — a person or thing that scrambles.
- selectman — (in most New England states) one of a board of town officers chosen to manage certain public affairs.
- semblance — outward aspect or appearance.