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9-letter words containing c, o, e, m, p

  • micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
  • 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.
  • mock epic — a long, humorous poem written in mock-heroic style.
  • monoscope — a cathode-ray tube that provides a signal of a fixed pattern, formerly used for testing television equipment at the end of a broadcast day.
  • monospace — Of a typeface, having the same width for each character.
  • moonscape — the general appearance of the surface of the moon.
  • morphemic — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
  • mutoscope — A motion-picture device of the late nineteenth century, to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole.
  • mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
  • omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
  • operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  • paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
  • perciform — a perch-like fish
  • phonemics — the study of phonemes and phonemic systems.
  • picometer — one trillionth of a meter
  • picometre — a trillionth fraction of metre
  • 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.
  • pneumonic — of, relating to, or affecting the lungs; pulmonary.
  • poeticism — a poetic expression that has become hackneyed, forced, or artificial.
  • poimenics — pastoral theology.
  • 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.
  • policemen — a member of a police force or body.
  • polydemic — native to several countries or two or more regions.
  • polymeric — of or relating to a polymer.
  • polysemic — capable of having several possible meanings
  • pomaceous — of, relating to, or of the nature of pomes.
  • poromeric — any of various microporous synthetic materials used as leather substitutes.
  • power mac — (computer)   Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
  • preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
  • premosaic — of the period before Moses
  • princedom — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
  • prometric — in favour of the metric system
  • proteomic — relating to a proteome
  • proxemics — Sociology, Psychology. the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
  • ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
  • pumiceous — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
  • pycnosome — a body type characterized by stockiness
  • pyodermic — relating to a skin disease characterized by the production of pus
  • pyroceram — a strong heat-resistant glass which has been heat-treated so that it is made up of microscopic crystalline domains
  • recompact — to pack or join (something) closely together again
  • recompile — to put together (documents, selections, or other materials) in one book or work.
  • recompose — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
  • recompute — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
  • somascope — a medical instrument used to inspect internal organs for disease
  • someplace — somewhere.
  • time copy — written material set in type and held for future use. Compare filler (def 5).
  • topectomy — excision of part of the cerebral cortex for the relief of unmanageable pain or especially as a treatment for certain mental disorders.
  • zymoscope — A zymometer.
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