9-letter words containing e, m, a, n, t
- midianite — a member of an ancient desert people of northwest Arabia near the Gulf of Aqaba, believed to have descended from Midian.
- militance — (uncountable) The condition of being militant.
- mincemeat — a mixture composed of minced apples, suet, and sometimes meat, together with raisins, currants, candied citron, etc., for filling a pie.
- mindstate — A state of mind.
- minecraft — a type of warship for sweeping mines at sea.
- mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
- miniature — a representation or image of something on a small or reduced scale.
- minibeast — (informal) An insect / bug etc.
- ministate — a small, independent nation.
- minnesota — a state in the N central United States. 84,068 sq. mi. (217,735 sq. km). Capital: St. Paul. Abbreviation: MN (for use with zip code), Minn.
- minuteman — (sometimes lowercase) a member of a group of American militiamen just before and during the Revolutionary War who held themselves in readiness for instant military service.
- miscreant — depraved, villainous, or base.
- mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
- mitnagged — a member of an Orthodox Jewish movement in central or eastern Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries that advocated an intellectual, legalistic approach to Judaism and opposed the emotional, mystical approach of the Hasidim. Compare Hasid (def 1).
- mizenmast — Alternative spelling of mizzenmast.
- momentary — lasting but a moment; very brief; fleeting: a momentary glimpse.
- monacetin — acetin.
- monastery — a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- montadale — one of a breed of white-faced, hornless sheep developed in the U.S. by crossing Cheviot rams and Columbia ewes, noted for their meat and heavy fleece.
- montaigne — Michel Eyquem [mee-shel e-kem] /miˈʃɛl ɛˈkɛm/ (Show IPA), Seigneur de, 1533–92, French essayist.
- montespan — Marquise de (Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart) 1641–1707, mistress of Louis XIV of France.
- montezuma — c1470–1520, last Aztec emperor of Mexico 1502–20.
- moon gate — (in Chinese architecture) a circular gateway in a wall.
- mordanted — Simple past tense and past participle of mordant.
- more than — a greater number or amount than
- morganite — rose-colored beryl.
- moth bean — a low, trailing Indian plant, Vigna aconitifolia, of the legume family, having yellow flowers grown for forage and edible, mottled grayish-yellow seeds.
- motheaten — Alt form moth-eaten.
- motlanthe — Kgalema (ɡɑːˈlɛmə). born 1949, South African statesman: president (2008–09)
- mountable — Able to be mounted.
- mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- multilane — (of a road or of vehicular traffic) Having more than one lane of traffic traveling in at least one direction.
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- mutagenic — capable of inducing mutation or increasing its rate.
- mute swan — a commonly domesticated soundless white swan, Cygnus olor, of Europe and Asia.
- myelinate — Of, related to, or composed of myelin.
- mythomane — a person with a strong or irresistible propensity for fantasizing, lying, or exaggerating.
- name tape — a fabric tape on which a person's name is written, woven, or printed: for affixing to garments and other personal belongings to identify ownership.
- nameplate — a flat, usually rectangular piece of metal, wood, or plastic on which the name of a person, company, etc., is printed or engraved: She has a large office with her nameplate on the door.
- nanometer — one billionth of a meter. Abbreviation: nm.
- nanometre — An SI subunit of length equal to 10-9 metres. Symbol: nm.
- nathemore — nevermore
- near-term — for, covering, or involving the very near future: the near-term prospects for lower interest rates.
- nematodes — Plural form of nematode.
- nemertean — any member of the invertebrate phylum Nemertea, comprising the ribbon worms.
- neogamist — A person recently married; newlywed.
- ner tamid — a lamp that is set above and in front of the Holy Ark in a synagogue and is kept burning constantly.
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- new maths — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.