9-letter words containing e, s, c, a, m
- manicheus — Manes.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- marcasite — Also called white iron pyrites. a common mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , chemically similar to pyrite but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- mascarade — Alternative form of masquerade.
- mascaraed — a substance used as a cosmetic to color the eyelashes and eyebrows.
- mascouche — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- masculate — (obsolete, transitive) To make strong.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- masoretic — of or relating to the Masorah or the Masoretes.
- massacred — Simple past tense and past participle of massacre.
- massacree — (colloquial) A sequence of events so absurd, complicated and uncommon as to be unbelievable.
- massacrer — One who massacres.
- massacres — Plural form of massacre.
- mast cell — a large granular cell, common in connective tissue, that produces heparin, histamine, and serotonin.
- masticate — Chew (food).
- mastocyte — Mast cell.
- matchless — having no equal; peerless; unequaled; incomparable: matchless courage.
- mavericks — Plural form of maverick.
- mcalester — a city in E Oklahoma.
- meatspace — The physical world, as opposed to cyberspace or a virtual environment.
- mechanics — a person who repairs and maintains machinery, motors, etc.: an automobile mechanic.
- mechanise — to make mechanical.
- mechanism — an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.
- mechanist — a person who believes in the theory of mechanism.
- medicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of medicate.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- megascope — A modification of the magic lantern, used especially for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.
- meniscate — resembling a meniscus
- merchants — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- mescalero — a member of a group of Apache Indians who originally inhabited northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. east of the Rio Grande, have intermarried with the Chiricahua and Lipan, and are presently situated in New Mexico.
- mescaline — a white, water-soluble, crystalline powder, C 1 1 H 1 7 NO 3 , obtained from mescal buttons, that produces hallucinations.
- mescalism — addiction to mescal, an alcoholic spirit
- mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- mesoscale — pertaining to meteorological phenomena, such as wind circulation and cloud patterns, that are about 1–100 km (0.6–60 miles) in horizontal extent.
- mess call — a bugle call for mess.
- messianic — the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
- metaclass — (programming) The class of a class in an object-oriented programming language. A metaclass is a class whose instances are themselves classes. Typically there will only be one metaclass, called "Class" or similar, which is the class of all classes including itself. In some languages there will be no metaclass. The idea of a metaclass is closely associated with introspection - the ability of a program to access the structure and logic of itself or other programs.
- metacryst — a crystal formed by recrystallization of minerals in a metamorphic rock.
- metascope — a device for converting infrared radiation into visible light.
- micaceous — consisting of, containing, or resembling mica.
- millraces — (archaic) Plural form of millrace.
- millscale — a scale or coating of iron oxide that forms on heated iron or steel on contact with air
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- misadvice — to give bad or inappropriate advice to.
- misbecame — Simple past tense and past participle of misbecome.
- miscalled — Simple past tense and past participle of miscall.