9-letter words containing i, y, e
- meliority — superiority.
- meltingly — In a melting way.
- mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- mendicity — mendicancy.
- mentality — mental capacity or endowment: a person of average mentality.
- mercurify — to mix with mercury; amalgamate.
- merit pay — an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.
- meronymic — Relating to a meronym or meronyms.
- methystic — intoxicating
- metonymic — Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object.
- microcyte — Pathology. an abnormally small red blood cell.
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- microzyme — (biology, dated) A microorganism supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism.
- midweekly — midweek.
- midwifery — the technique or practice of a midwife.
- millenary — consisting of or pertaining to a thousand, especially a thousand years.
- millinery — women's hats and other articles made or sold by milliners.
- mime type — (file format, protocol, multimedia) The unique identifier used for different file types when conveyed across a MIME-based protocol such as MIME e-mail or HTTP. Registration of MIME types is explained in RFC 2048.
- minelayer — a naval ship equipped for placing mines in the water.
- minicycle — minibike.
- minor key — a key or mode based on a minor scale.
- miscegeny — (rare) Miscegenation.
- misemploy — to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
- miserably — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
- misrhymed — badly rhymed
- missilery — the science of the construction and use of guided missiles.
- modernity — the quality of being modern.
- mondayize — to move (a statutory holiday, such as the Queen's birthday) to the nearest Monday in order to secure a long weekend
- money pit — sth continually costing money
- moneywise — In terms of money; financially speaking.
- monkeying — Present participle of monkey.
- monkeyish — Like a monkey.
- monkeyism — the practice of copying or behaving like a monkey
- multiyear — Having a duration of multiple years.
- muybridge — Eadweard [ed-werd] /ˈɛd wərd/ (Show IPA), (Edward James Muggeridge) 1830–1904, U.S. photographer, born in England: pioneered in photographic studies of animals and humans in motion.
- mycerinus — king of ancient Egypt c2600–2570 b.c.: builder of the third great pyramid at ·El· Giza.
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- myelinate — Of, related to, or composed of myelin.
- myenteric — Relating to or denoting a plexus of nerves of the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems situated between and supplying the two layers of muscle in the small intestine.
- mykerinos — Mycerinus.
- myricetin — (organic compound) A particular flavonol, found in many vegetables etc., that has antioxidant and other therapeutic properties.
- myristate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of myristic acid.
- myrmecoid — ant-like
- mysterial — (obsolete) mysterious.
- mysteries — Plural form of mystery.
- mysterium — (chemistry, alchemy, now historical) Any of various unknown elements thought to make up existing forms of matter, or a substance seen as an elemental or pure form of something else.
- mysticete — any whale of the suborder Mysticeti, as finback and humpback whales, characterized by a symmetrical skull, paired blowholes, and rows of baleen plates for feeding on plankton.
- mysticize — to make mystical; give mystical meaning to: to mysticize natural phenomena.
- mystified — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.