9-letter words containing m, a, c, i
- encomiast — A person who publicly praises or flatters someone else.
- enigmatic — Difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious.
- enzymatic — Of, relating to, or caused by enzymes.
- ermanaric — died ?375 ad, king of the Ostrogoths: ruled an extensive empire in eastern Europe, which was overrun by the Huns in the 370s
- excambion — an exchange, esp of land
- exciseman — An official responsible for collecting excise tax and preventing infringement of the excise laws (especially by smuggling).
- exclaimed — Cry out suddenly, esp. in surprise, anger, or pain.
- exclaimer — One who exclaims.
- face time — time spent speaking or meeting with one or more people face to face, in contrast to phone conversations or other means of communication: Is he available for a couple of hours of face time?
- face-time — Face-time is time that you spend talking directly to someone, rather than talking by phone or email.
- facsimile — an exact copy, as of a book, painting, or manuscript.
- falciform — sickle-shaped; falcate.
- film pack — a number of sheets of film arranged one over the other and connected so that they can be exposed successively.
- firemanic — of or pertaining to firemen
- formicant — (medicine,obsolete) Of the pulse: weak and rapid.
- formicary — an ant nest.
- formicate — To move like ants.
- formulaic — made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot.
- fumarolic — Of or relating to a fumarole or fumaroles.
- gaelicism — a word, phrase or idiom peculiar to the Gaelic language
- gallicism — a French idiom or expression used in another language, as Je ne sais quoi when used in English.
- gasconism — the quality of being boastful; boastfulness
- geomantic — Of or relating to geomancy.
- geomatics — The discipline of gathering, storing, processing, and delivering geographic information.
- gimcracks — Plural form of gimcrack.
- gimme cap — a visored cap decorated with the symbol or name of a product, company, etc.
- glycaemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- glycaemic — Alternative spelling of glycemic.
- grammatic — Grammatical.
- graphemic — Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
- grimacing — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- gymnastic — of or relating to physical exercises that develop and demonstrate strength, balance, and agility, especially such exercises performed mostly on special equipment.
- harmonica — Also called mouth organ. a musical wind instrument consisting of a small rectangular case containing a set of metal reeds connected to a row of holes, over which the player places the mouth and exhales and inhales to produce the tones.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- hematinic — a medicine, as a compound of iron, that tends to increase the amount of hematin or hemoglobin in the blood.
- hematitic — Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.
- hemispace — the area to either the right or left side of the body
- hexameric — Of or pertaining to a hexamer.
- homicidal — of or relating to homicide.
- homogamic — (of a plant) in which all the flowers of an inflorescence are either of the same sex or hermaphrodite
- hypomanic — Afflicted with a mild state of mania.
- ibm pc at — (computer) ("Advanced Technology") A version of the IBM PC, released in Aug 1984 with an Intel 80286 processor, a 16-bit bus, a medium-speed hard disk and a 1.2 megabyte floppy disk drive. It had a larger case than the PC, which allowed it to accept "tall cards". The AT keyboard corrected the PC's non-standard placement of the return and left shift keys but shortened the backspace key, making it harder to reach.
- ice cream — a frozen food containing cream or milk and butterfat, sugar, flavoring, and sometimes eggs.
- ice maker — machine that makes ice cubes
- icemakers — Plural form of icemaker.
- idiomatic — peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect: idiomatic French.
- imagistic — (often initial capital letter) a theory or practice of a group of poets in England and America between 1909 and 1917 who believed that poetry should employ the language of common speech, create new rhythms, have complete freedom in subject matter, and present a clear, concentrated, and precise image.
- imbalance — the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
- imbracery — embracery.
- imbricate — overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.