9-letter words containing l, e, t, i, r
- marielito — a refugee from Cuba who came to the U.S. in 1980 as part of a mass migration that sailed from Mariel, Cuba.
- materials — the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed: Stone is a durable material.
- materiels — Plural form of materiel.
- megaliter — Alternative spelling of megalitre One million liters.
- megalitre — A unit of volume equivalent to 1000000 litres. Symbol: Ml.
- meliorate — (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.
- meliorist — A proponent of meliorism.
- meliority — superiority.
- mentorial — Of or relating to a mentor.
- meritable — Deserving of reward.
- meritless — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- metralgia — pain in the uterus.
- microlite — any microscopic crystal.
- mililiter — Misspelling of milliliter.
- milimeter — Misspelling of millimeter.
- millerite — a follower of William Miller, a U.S. preacher who taught that the Second Advent of Christ and the beginning of the millennium were to occur in 1843.
- milometer — An odometer graduated in miles.
- minstrels — Plural form of minstrel.
- mirthless — gaiety or jollity, especially when accompanied by laughter: the excitement and mirth of the holiday season.
- misrelate — (transitive) To relate inaccurately.
- mitraille — the shot or small pieces of iron that are fired from a cannon
- montreuil — a suburb of Paris, in N France.
- mortalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of mortalize.
- mortalize — (transitive) To make mortal.
- multicore — (computer hardware, of a processor) Combining two or more independent cores into a single package composed of a single integrated circuit.
- multigerm — (in certain varieties of sugar beet) having seed balls with multiple fruits, thus being able to produce several seedlings
- multirole — a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- multitier — Having many tiers; multitiered.
- multiuser — (of a computer system) able to be used by a number of people simultaneously.
- multiyear — Having a duration of multiple years.
- mysterial — (obsolete) mysterious.
- nailbiter — the act or practice of biting one's fingernails, especially as the result of anxiety or nervousness.
- natrolite — a white or colorless zeolite mineral, a hydrous silicate of sodium and aluminum, Na 2 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 0 ⋅2H 2 O, often occurring in acicular crystals.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- neurility — the ability belonging to nerves to conduct electrical impulses
- nilometer — a graduated pillar by which the rise and fall of the Nile can be measured
- old timer — a person whose residence, membership, or experience began long ago and has been continuing for a considerable length of time; veteran.
- old-timer — a person whose residence, membership, or experience began long ago and has been continuing for a considerable length of time; veteran.
- orientals — Plural form of oriental.
- orleanist — a supporter of the Orléans branch of the former French royal family and of its claim to the throne of France through descent from the younger brother of Louis XIV.
- ottrelite — a brittle mica containing manganese and similar to margarite in physical and chemical properties.
- outlinear — relating to an outline
- outliners — Plural form of outliner.
- overbuilt — Simple past tense and past participle of overbuild.
- overlight — a strong light
- overlimit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
- painterly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- pearlitic — Metallurgy. a microscopic lamellar structure found in iron or steel, composed of alternating layers of ferrite and cementite.