9-letter words containing m, a, h
- mcglashan — Don(ald). born 1959, New Zealand musician and songwriter in the bands Blam Blam Blam, the Front Lawn, and the Mutton Birds
- meal moth — a small pyralid moth, Pyralis farinalis, whose larvae are an important pest of stored cereals. The Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella) and the Mediterranean flour moth (Ephestia kuehniella) are other pyralids with similar habits
- meanwhile — meantime.
- meat hook — Usually, meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist: Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.
- meatheads — Plural form of meathead.
- meathooks — Usually, meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist: Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.
- mechanick — Obsolete spelling of mechanic.
- mechanics — a person who repairs and maintains machinery, motors, etc.: an automobile mechanic.
- mechanise — to make mechanical.
- mechanism — an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.
- mechanist — a person who believes in the theory of mechanism.
- mechanize — to make mechanical.
- mechitzah — mehitzah.
- media-shy — reluctant to appear in the mass media
- megachain — A very large and successful chain (group of stores or businesses).
- megadeath — a unit of one million deaths: used in estimating or predicting the fatalities that would occur in a nuclear war.
- megahertz — a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second. Abbreviation: MHz.
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- megaliths — Plural form of megalith.
- megamouth — The megamouth shark.
- megaphone — a cone-shaped device for magnifying or directing the voice, chiefly used in addressing a large audience out of doors or in calling to someone at a distance. Compare bullhorn.
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- megathere — any of the huge, slothlike animals of the extinct genus Megatherium, or closely related genera, that lived from the Oligocene to the Pleistocene epochs.
- megatherm — a plant requiring a constant high temperature and abundant moisture for growth.
- meghalaya — a state in NE India. 8660 sq. mi. (22,429 sq. km). Capital: Shillong.
- megillahs — Plural form of megillah.
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- melphalan — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- memsahibs — Plural form of memsahib.
- menhadens — Plural form of menhaden.
- menorrhea — menstrual flow.
- merchants — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- merneptah — king of ancient Egypt c1225–c1215 b.c. (son of Ramses II).
- meshugaas — foolishness; insanity; senselessness.
- meshugana — a crazy person.
- mess hall — a place in which a group eats regularly, especially a dining hall in a military camp, post, etc.
- metahuman — Superhuman.
- metalhead — Slang. a fan of heavy metal music; headbanger.
- metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
- metaphase — the stage in mitosis or meiosis in which the duplicated chromosomes line up along the equatorial plate of the spindle.
- metaphone — (algorithm, text) An algorithm for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to soundex in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <[email protected]>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].
- metaphore — Misspelling of metaphor.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metaphyte — a multicellular plant.
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- methadone — a synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 8 ClNO, similar to morphine but effective orally, used in the relief of pain and as a heroin substitute in the treatment of heroin addiction.
- 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.
- michoacan — a state in SW Mexico. 23,196 sq. mi. (60,080 sq. km). Capital: Morelia.
- midheaven — the point of a horoscope corresponding to the zenith: the cusp of the tenth house.