9-letter words containing m, a, i, e
- meiofauna — Minute interstitial animals living in soil and aquatic sediments.
- melanesia — one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising the island groups in the S Pacific NE of Australia.
- melanitic — containing, or relating to, melanite
- melanosis — abnormal deposition or development of black or dark pigment in the tissues.
- melanotic — of or affected with melanosis.
- melanuria — the presence of melanin in urine
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- melatonin — a hormone secreted by the pineal gland in inverse proportion to the amount of light received by the retina, important in the regulation of biorhythms: in amphibians, it causes a lightening of the skin.
- meliorate — (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.
- melismata — Plural form of melisma.
- melomania — great enthusiasm for music
- melomanic — characterized by a great enthusiasm for music
- meloxicam — an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat osteoarthritis
- memorials — Plural form of memorial.
- memsahibs — Plural form of memsahib.
- menadione — a synthetic yellow crystalline powder, C 1 1 H 8 O 2 , insoluble in water, used as a vitamin K supplement.
- menagerie — a collection of wild or unusual animals, especially for exhibition.
- mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- mendelian — of or relating to Gregor Mendel or to his laws of heredity.
- mendicant — begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
- mendicate — (ambitransitive) To beg.
- meningeal — (anatomy) Relating to the meninges.
- meniscate — resembling a meniscus
- mentalise — Alt form mentalize.
- mentalism — the doctrine that objects of knowledge have no existence except in the mind of the perceiver.
- mentalist — a person who believes in or advocates mentalism.
- mentality — mental capacity or endowment: a person of average mentality.
- mentalize — (usually, in passive) To make mental in nature, rather than physical.
- mentation — mental activity.
- mentorial — Of or relating to a mentor.
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
- meridians — Plural form of meridian.
- merit pay — an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.
- meritable — Deserving of reward.
- meromelia — A birth defect characterized by the lacking of a part, but not all, of one or more limbs with the presence of a hand or foot, resulting in a shrunken and deformed extremity.
- meropidan — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae
- merrimack — a town in S New Hampshire.
- mertensia — any of various plants belonging to the genus Mertensia, of the borage family, including the lungworts and the Virginia cowslip.
- mesangial — Of or pertaining to the mesangium.
- mesangium — (anatomy) A thin layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries.
- mescaline — a white, water-soluble, crystalline powder, C 1 1 H 1 7 NO 3 , obtained from mescal buttons, that produces hallucinations.
- mescalism — addiction to mescal, an alcoholic spirit
- messaging — a communication containing some information, news, advice, request, or the like, sent by messenger, telephone, email, or other means.
- messalian — Euchite.
- messalina — Valeria, died a.d. 48, third wife of Claudius I.
- messaline — a thin, soft silk with a twill or satin weave.
- messapian — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- messianic — the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
- metabasis — (rhetoric) A change from one subject to another.