9-letter words containing e, y, a, m
- mastocyte — Mast cell.
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- maternity — the state of being a mother; motherhood.
- mateyness — The state of being matey, camaraderie, chumminess.
- may apple — an American plant, Podophyllum peltatum, of the barberry family, bearing an edible, yellowish, egg-shaped fruit.
- may queen — a girl or young woman crowned with flowers and honored as queen in the festivities of May Day.
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- mayhappen — perhaps; mayhap.
- mccartney — (Sir) (James) Paul, born 1942, English singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist for the Beatles.
- md-player — a machine on which you can play minidiscs
- mealy bug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- meaningly — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- meatotomy — (surgery) A form of penile modification in which the underside of the glans is split, sometimes performed to alleviate meatal stenosis or urethral stricture.
- medalplay — (in golf) scoring system in which the score is based on the total number of strokes taken
- media-shy — reluctant to appear in the mass media
- mediately — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- mediatory — pertaining to mediation.
- medically — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
- medullary — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling the medulla of an organ or the medulla oblongata.
- megabytes — Plural form of megabyte.
- megacycle — Electricity. a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second; megahertz. The term megahertz is now preferred in technical use. Abbreviation: Mc, mc.
- megapenny — /meg'*-pen"ee/ $10,000 (1 cent * 10^6). Used semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer cost and performance figures.
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- meghalaya — a state in NE India. 8660 sq. mi. (22,429 sq. km). Capital: Shillong.
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- melt away — thaw
- memorably — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- mentality — mental capacity or endowment: a person of average mentality.
- mercenary — working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal.
- merit pay — an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- metacryst — a crystal formed by recrystallization of minerals in a metamorphic rock.
- metagnomy — (rare) divination.
- metaphyte — a multicellular plant.
- metaxylem — the part of the primary xylem that is the last to be formed, usually having weblike or pitted surfaces.
- methylase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyse methylation
- methylate — Also called methoxide. any derivative of methyl alcohol, as sodium methylate, CH 3 ONa.
- millenary — consisting of or pertaining to a thousand, especially a thousand years.
- minelayer — a naval ship equipped for placing mines in the water.
- miserably — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
- molybdate — a salt of any molybdic acid.
- momentary — lasting but a moment; very brief; fleeting: a momentary glimpse.
- monastery — a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- mondayize — to move (a statutory holiday, such as the Queen's birthday) to the nearest Monday in order to secure a long weekend
- money-bag — a bag for money.
- moneybags — a bag for money.
- monolayer — molecular film.
- mooseyard — an area of trodden snow where moose spend the winter