9-letter words containing e, r, o, n
- modernise — to make modern; give a new or modern character or appearance to: to modernize one's ideas; to modernize a kitchen.
- modernism — modern character, tendencies, or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern.
- modernist — a person who follows or favors modern ways, tendencies, etc.
- modernity — the quality of being modern.
- modernize — to make modern; give a new or modern character or appearance to: to modernize one's ideas; to modernize a kitchen.
- moistener — Something used to moisten, especially a cosmetic.
- moldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- momentary — lasting but a moment; very brief; fleeting: a momentary glimpse.
- mon-khmer — a group of Austroasiatic languages that includes Mon, of Burma, and Khmer, the language of Cambodia.
- monastery — a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- monergism — the doctrine that the Holy Ghost acts independently of the human will in the work of regeneration. Compare synergism (def 3).
- moneywort — a creeping plant, Lysimachia nummularia, of the primrose family, having roundish leaves and solitary yellow flowers.
- mongering — a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way (usually used in combination): a gossipmonger.
- monitored — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
- monitress — a female student who helps keep order or assists a teacher in school.
- monoceros — (obsolete) a unicorn.
- monoester — a single esterified polybasic acid.
- monolayer — molecular film.
- monomeric — a molecule of low molecular weight capable of reacting with identical or different molecules of low molecular weight to form a polymer.
- monometer — a line of verse of one measure or foot.
- monorhine — an animal that has one nasal orifice
- monorhyme — a poem or stanza in which all the lines rhyme with each other.
- monotower — A monotower is an offshore platform without any workers, which has one leg.
- monotreme — any animal of the Monotremata, the most primitive order of mammals, characterized by certain birdlike and reptilian features, as hatching young from eggs, and having a single opening for the digestive, urinary, and genital organs, comprising only the duckbill and the echidnas of Australia and New Guinea.
- monsieurs — Plural form of monsieur.
- monstered — Simple past tense and past participle of monster.
- monterrey — a state in NE Mexico. 25,136 sq. mi. (65,102 sq. km). Capital: Monterrey.
- montreuil — a suburb of Paris, in N France.
- moonprobe — an information-gathering spacecraft designed to pass close by or land on the lunar surface.
- moonraker — Also called moonsail [moon-suh l, -seyl] /ˈmun səl, -ˌseɪl/ (Show IPA). Nautical. a light square sail set above a skysail.
- moonrises — Plural form of moonrise.
- mordanted — Simple past tense and past participle of mordant.
- more than — a greater number or amount than
- morganite — rose-colored beryl.
- morphogen — A chemical agent able to cause or determine morphogenesis.
- mothering — a female parent.
- mr. bones — the end man in a minstrel troupe who plays the bones.
- mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- mykerinos — Mycerinus.
- myoneural — of or relating to both muscle and nerve.
- n'importe — no matter
- name-drop — mention famous person to impress
- nameboard — a signboard that identifies a place or object.
- nanometer — one billionth of a meter. Abbreviation: nm.
- nanometre — An SI subunit of length equal to 10-9 metres. Symbol: nm.
- nanopores — Plural form of nanopore.
- narcotine — An alkaloid found in opium; noscapine.
- narcotise — Alternative spelling of narcotize.
- narcotize — to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
- narrowest — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.