9-letter words containing c, o, m, r, i
- 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.
- microdata — (statistics) data concerning individuals in a trial, survey etc.
- microdont — abnormally small teeth.
- microdose — (medicine) A very low dose (especially of radiation therapy).
- microdots — Plural form of microdot.
- microfilm — a film bearing a miniature photographic copy of printed or other graphic matter, usually of a document, newspaper or book pages, etc., made for a library, archive, or the like.
- microform — any form, either film or paper, containing microreproductions.
- microglia — Glial cells derived from mesoderm that function as macrophages (scavengers) in the central nervous system and form part of the reticuloendothelial system.
- microgram — micrograph (def 2).
- microinch — a unit of length equal to one millionth of an inch. Symbol: μin.
- microlite — any microscopic crystal.
- microlith — a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, especially during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.
- microloan — a very small, short-term loan at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- micrology — excessive attention to petty details or distinctions.
- 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
- micromini — microminiature.
- micromole — (chemistry, physics) One millionth of a mole.
- micromort — a unit of risk equal to a one-in-a-million chance of dying
- micronise — (British) To reduce in size often to micrometer scale.
- micronism — A theoretical microorganism living in the ice or under the surface of Jupiter's ice moon Europa.
- micronize — Break (a substance) into very fine particles.
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.
- micropore — a tiny opening, as in specialized biological filters or in the shells of some animals.
- micropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- micropump — a tiny pump implanted under the skin for the timed administration of medication.
- 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.
- microslop — (company, abuse) A derisive synonym for Microsoft Corporation. It refers to the sloppy, bug-ridden "x.0" versions of MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft products.
- microsoft — Microsoft Corporation
- microsome — a small inclusion, consisting of ribosomes and fragments of the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria, in the cytoplasm of a cell.
- microstat — a negative of a microphotograph made directly from a negative by a copy camera.