9-letter words containing m, a, i, e
- at a time — You say at a time after an amount to say how many things or how much of something is involved in one action, place, or group.
- atacamite — a mineral, green in colour, containing copper and present in Australia, Chile, and Cornwall
- athematic — not based on themes
- athletism — The state or practice of an athlete; the characteristics of an athlete.
- atmophile — (of a chemical element in the earth) having an affinity for the atmosphere, as neon or helium.
- atomizers — Plural form of atomizer.
- augmentin — (medicine) The antibiotic amoxicillin.
- auteurism — a critical film theory according to which the primary creator of a film is the director, all of whose works are said to reflect to a certain degree the characteristics of a personal style
- autocrime — a crime involving a motor vehicle, esp the theft of a car
- autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- automized — Simple past tense and past participle of automize.
- autotimer — a device for turning a system on and off automatically at times predetermined by advance setting
- availment — (obsolete) Profit; advantage.
- ave maria — “Hail, Mary,” the first words of the Latin version of a prayer to the Virgin Mary used in the Roman Catholic Church
- averroism — the teachings of Averroës
- avisement — the careful consideration or observation of something
- axminster — a type of patterned carpet with a cut pile
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- baia-mare — city in NW Romania: pop. 150,000
- baisemain — a kissing of the hand; thus, a sign of respect
- balminess — mild and refreshing; soft; soothing: balmy weather.
- baltimore — a port in N Maryland, on Chesapeake Bay. Pop: 628 670 (2003 est)
- barenboim — Daniel. born 1942, Israeli concert pianist and conductor, born in Argentina
- barmecide — lavish or plentiful in imagination only; illusory; sham
- barminess — the quality of being barmy; craziness
- batmobile — (slang) To proceed in a fast, urgent, or reckless way, especially in a vehicle.
- beam fill — material, as concrete, for filling spaces between beams or joists in or on top of a masonry wall.
- beam mill — a rolling mill for roughing a bloom and rolling it into a shape.
- beam wind — a wind blowing against a vessel from a direction at right angles to its keel.
- beaminess — the quality of beaming
- beamingly — in a beaming manner
- beamishly — in a beamish manner; smilingly; radiantly
- beat time — If you beat time to a piece of music, you move your hand or foot up and down in time with the music. A conductor beats time to show the choir or orchestra how fast they should sing or play the music.
- beaumaris — a resort in N Wales, on the island of Anglesey: 13th-century castle. Pop: 1513 (2001)
- becalming — Present participle of becalm.
- bedlamism — anything characteristic of bedlam
- bedlamite — a lunatic; insane person
- benjamins — hundred-dollar bills
- benzamine — eucaine.
- bermudian — a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
- bicameral — (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
- big media — the mainstream media, as television and newspapers: blogs that compete with big media.
- bigeminal — happening in pairs
- biohermal — a carbonate rock formation, in the form of an ancient reef or hummock, consisting of the fossilized remains of corals, algae, mollusks, and other sedentary marine life, and commonly surrounded by rock of a different lithology.
- biomarker — a distinct biochemical, genetic, or molecular characteristic or substance that is an indicator of a particular biological condition or process: a blood test to measure protein biomarkers for cancer.
- biomasses — Ecology. the amount of living matter in a given habitat, expressed either as the weight of organisms per unit area or as the volume of organisms per unit volume of habitat.
- birlieman — a judge dealing with local law
- birthname — a name given at birth
- bitmapped — composed of or formed by a pattern of pixels to make a bitmap
- bitstream — a sequence of digital data transmitted electronically