9-letter words containing e, o, t, h
- mash note — an effusive note or letter expressing affection or passion for the recipient, usually a stranger or someone known only casually
- masthouse — a place, usually in a dockyard, in which masts are stored
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- meal moth — a small pyralid moth, Pyralis farinalis, whose larvae are an important pest of stored cereals. The Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella) and the Mediterranean flour moth (Ephestia kuehniella) are other pyralids with similar habits
- meat hook — Usually, meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist: Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.
- meathooks — Usually, meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist: Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.
- megamouth — The megamouth shark.
- megilloth — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- mesh knot — sheet bend.
- mesophyte — a plant growing under conditions of well-balanced moisture supply.
- metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
- metaphone — (algorithm, text) An algorithm for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to soundex in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <[email protected]>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].
- metaphore — Misspelling of metaphor.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- methadone — a synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 8 ClNO, similar to morphine but effective orally, used in the relief of pain and as a heroin substitute in the treatment of heroin addiction.
- methodism — the doctrines, polity, beliefs, and methods of worship of the Methodists.
- methodist — a member of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of the revival of religion led by John Wesley: stresses both personal and social morality and has an Arminian doctrine and, in the U.S., a modified episcopal polity.
- methodius — Saint (Apostle of the Slavs) a.d. c825–885, Greek missionary in Moravia (brother of Saint Cyril).
- methodize — to reduce (something) to a method.
- methought — simple past tense of methinks.
- methoxide — methylate (def 1).
- moesogoth — one of the Christianized Goths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century a.d.
- moithered — Simple past tense and past participle of moither.
- monoethyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) A single ethyl group in a molecule.
- monteiths — Plural form of monteith.
- monthlies — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- more than — a greater number or amount than
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- 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.
- moth-hole — a hole in a piece of material or item clothing caused by a moth eating it
- motheaten — Alt form moth-eaten.
- motherers — Plural form of motherer.
- motherese — the simplified and repetitive type of speech, with exaggerated intonation and rhythm, often used by adults when speaking to babies
- mothering — a female parent.
- motlanthe — Kgalema (ɡɑːˈlɛmə). born 1949, South African statesman: president (2008–09)
- motorhome — a small bus or trucklike vehicle with a roomlike area behind the driver's seat outfitted as living quarters.
- mouchette — a daggerlike form, especially in tracery, created by a segmental and an ogee curve so that it is pointed at one end and circular at the other.
- moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- mouthable — able to be recited or spoken well
- mouthfeel — the tactile sensation a food gives to the mouth: a creamy mouthfeel.
- mouthless — Without a mouth.
- mouthlike — Resembling a mouth or some aspect of one.
- mythomane — a person with a strong or irresistible propensity for fantasizing, lying, or exaggerating.
- mythopoet — a writer of mythic verse
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- nathemore — nevermore
- neckcloth — cravat (def 2).
- neogothic — of, relating to, or designating chiefly a style of architecture in which gothic motifs and forms are imitated.
- neolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.