9-letter words containing m, a, c, e
- placename — the name given to or held by a geographical location, as a town, city, village, etc.
- placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
- pneumatic — of or relating to air, gases, or wind.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- polemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- policeman — a member of a police force or body.
- pomaceous — of, relating to, or of the nature of pomes.
- power mac — (computer) Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
- preadamic — occurring or existing before Adam
- preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- preclimax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- premenace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- primacies — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
- pyroceram — a strong heat-resistant glass which has been heat-treated so that it is made up of microscopic crystalline domains
- quickbeam — a rowan tree
- racemates — Plural form of racemate.
- radectomy — excision of part or all of the root of a tooth.
- reacclaim — to acclaim again
- reclaimer — to bring (uncultivated areas or wasteland) into a condition for cultivation or other use.
- recompact — to pack or join (something) closely together again
- reed mace — cattail.
- remanence — the magnetic flux that remains in a magnetic circuit after an applied magnetomotive force has been removed.
- rest camp — a camp where soldiers rest
- rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rocambole — a European plant, Allium scorodoprasum, of the amaryllis family, used like garlic.
- romanesco — a variety of green cauliflower
- sachemdom — the office of a sachem
- sack time — time spent sleeping.
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- samoyedic — of or relating to the Samoyed people or languages.
- sarcomere — any of the segments of myofibril in striated muscle fibers.
- sarcosome — a mitochondrion occurring in a muscle fiber.
- scamander — ancient name of the river Menderes.
- scampered — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- schematic — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
- schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
- scrambler — a person or thing that scrambles.
- screaming — uttering screams.
- scrimmage — a rough or vigorous struggle.
- scrummage — scrum (defs 1, 3).
- search me — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- selectman — (in most New England states) one of a board of town officers chosen to manage certain public affairs.
- semantics — Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
- semblance — outward aspect or appearance.
- semi-coma — a light coma from which a person can be roused.
- semivocal — of or relating to a semivowel
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce