9-letter words containing e, c, r, i
- liquorice — licorice.
- localizer — (computing) A person who localizes.
- lockerbie — a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a passenger jet (Pan Am flight 103) was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town. Pop: 4009 (2001)
- lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- luciferin — a pigment occurring in luminescent organisms, as fireflies, that emits light when undergoing oxidation.
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lucretius — (Titus Lucretius Carus) 97?–54 b.c, Roman poet and philosopher.
- lyricised — to write lyrics.
- 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.
- metrician — a metrist.
- metricise — study metre of poetry
- metricism — the study of metrics
- metricize — to express in terms of the metric system.
- microbeam — (physics) A beam having a small cross section.
- microbrew — beer brewed in a microbrewery.
- microcode — one or more microinstructions.
- microcyte — Pathology. an abnormally small red blood cell.