9-letter words containing m, a, i, e
- mailorder — Ordered to be delivered to one's home.
- mailwomen — Plural form of mailwoman.
- main beam — a long thick bar of wood, metal, or concrete used in the construction of houses which transmits its load directly to a wall or column, as opposed to another beam
- main deck — the uppermost weatherproof deck, running the full length of a ship.
- main idea — the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about: Find the main idea in each paragraph.
- main line — a fashionable residential district west of Philadelphia.
- main menu — website, DVD, etc.: navigation page
- main stem — the main street of a city or town; the main drag.
- main verb — a word used as the final verb in a verb phrase, expressing the lexical meaning of the verb phrase, as drink in I don't drink, going in I am going, or spoken in We have spoken.
- mainbrace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- mainframe — a large computer, often the hub of a system serving many users.
- mainlined — Simple past tense and past participle of mainline.
- mainliner — Slang. a person who mainlines.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- mains set — an appliance, such as a television or radio, that is powered by mains electricity
- mainsheet — a sheet of a mainsail.
- mainstage — The largest performing space in a venue.
- maintaine — Obsolete spelling of maintain.
- maintenon — Marquise de (Françoise d'Aubigné) 1635–1719, second wife of Louis XIV.
- maiquetia — a city in the Federal District, in N Venezuela.
- maitre d' — maître d'hôtel (defs 1–3).
- majestick — Archaic spelling of majestic.
- majesties — regal, lofty, or stately dignity; imposing character; grandeur: majesty of bearing; the majesty of Chartres.
- make bail — If someone who has been arrested makes bail, or if another person makes bail for them, the arrested person is released on bail.
- make like — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make nice — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- make sail — to sail upon, over, or through: to sail the seven seas.
- make time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- make with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make-nice — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- makefiles — Plural form of makefile.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- mala fide — in bad faith; not genuine.
- malachite — a green mineral, basic copper carbonate, Cu 2 CO 3 (OH) 2 , an ore of copper, used for making ornamental articles.
- maledicts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maledict.
- malengine — a wicked plan or deceit
- malingers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malinger.
- malingery — The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.
- malintent — Malicious intent.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- maltitude — (math) Any of the four line segments perpendicular to the sides of a cyclic quadrilateral and passing through the opposite side's midpoint.
- malvoisie — malmsey wine.
- mamillate — having nipples or nipple-like protuberances
- mammaries — Female breasts; Plural form of mammary.
- mammering — to stammer or mutter.
- mammifers — Plural form of mammifer.
- mammonite — the greedy pursuit of riches.
- mammonize — To render mammonic, to cause to pursue great wealth.
- man-sized — large; big; generous: a man-sized sandwich.
- manassite — a member of the tribe of Manasseh.