9-letter words containing e, c, r, i, m
- imperfect — not perfect; lacking completeness: imperfect knowledge.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- imprecate — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- imprecise — not precise; not exact; vague or ill-defined.
- in camera — a judge's private office.
- incoterms — Plural form of incoterm.
- incremate — (transitive) To cremate.
- increment — something added or gained; addition; increase.
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- intercome — (intransitive) To intervene; interpose; interfere.
- intercoms — Plural form of intercom.
- irenicism — the promotion and support of peace and conciliation
- isometric — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- limerance — Alternative form of limerence.
- limerence — The state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person, typically experienced involuntarily and characterized by a strong desire for reciprocation of one’s feelings but not primarily for a sexual relationship.
- limericks — Plural form of limerick.
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- mackinder — Sir Halford John. 1861–1947, British geographer noted esp for his work in political geography. His writings include Democratic Ideas and Reality (1919)
- macquarie — a river in SE Australia, in New South Wales, flowing NW to the Darling River. 750 miles (1210 km) long.
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- mainbrace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- marcasite — Also called white iron pyrites. a common mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , chemically similar to pyrite but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
- marchlike — (music) Resembling a march.
- markevich — Igor [ee-guh r] /ˈi gər/ (Show IPA), 1912–83, Russian conductor and composer.
- masoretic — of or relating to the Masorah or the Masoretes.
- matricide — the act of killing one's mother.
- mavericks — Plural form of maverick.
- mediciner — a physician
- mediocris — (of a cumulus cloud) of medium height and often lacking a distinctive summit.
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- 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.
- 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.
- metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
- metameric — Also, metameral, M03/M0350800 muh-tam-er-uh l, məˈtæm ər əl. Zoology. consisting of metameres. pertaining to metamerism.
- metricate — Change or adapt to a metric system of measurement.