9-letter words containing c, m, i
- mercerize — to treat (cotton yarns or fabric) with caustic alkali under tension, in order to increase strength, luster, and affinity for dye.
- mercified — Simple past tense and past participle of mercify.
- merciless — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
- mercurify — to mix with mercury; amalgamate.
- mercurius — (Mercurius) died a.d. 535, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 533–535.
- mercurize — mercurate (def 2).
- 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.
- merrimack — a town in S New Hampshire.
- 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
- messianic — the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
- 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.
- metabatic — Relating to metabasis.
- metabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
- metalogic — the logical analysis of the fundamental concepts of logic.
- metameric — Also, metameral, M03/M0350800 muh-tam-er-uh l, məˈtæm ər əl. Zoology. consisting of metameres. pertaining to metamerism.
- metestick — a measuring rod
- methystic — intoxicating
- metonymic — Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object.
- metricate — Change or adapt to a metric system of measurement.
- metrician — a metrist.
- metricise — study metre of poetry
- metricism — the study of metrics
- metricize — to express in terms of the metric system.
- miasmatic — noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
- micaceous — consisting of, containing, or resembling mica.
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- michoacan — a state in SW Mexico. 23,196 sq. mi. (60,080 sq. km). Capital: Morelia.
- micro$oft — (abuse, company) Microsoft written with a dollar sign, as though there was any doubt that they are a money-making enterprise. This little witticism was probably created before Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates established the philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- 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.
- microblog — to post very short entries, as a brief update or a photo, on a blog or social media website: A lot of people were microblogging during the crisis.
- microbody — (cytology): A cellular organelle bound by a single membrane and containing enzymes.
- microbots — Plural form of microbot.
- microbrew — beer brewed in a microbrewery.
- microcard — A small card bearing a microreproduction of text, resembling the microfiche format but on cardboard rather than photographic film.
- microchip — chip1 (def 5).
- microcity — An unusually small city or citylike environment.
- microcode — one or more microinstructions.
- microcopy — a microphotographic copy of a printed page or the like, as in microfilm or microfiche.
- microcosm — a little world; a world in miniature (opposed to macrocosm).
- microcyte — Pathology. an abnormally small red blood cell.