9-letter words containing m, e, a, n
- mr. clean — an actual or idealized person with an impeccable record, reputation, or image, especially a politician (sometimes used with Miss, Ms., or Mrs. instead of Mr. when referring to a female).
- mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- mud snake — an iridescent black and red snake, Farancia abacura, of southeastern and south-central U.S., having a sharp, stiff tail tip used in manipulating prey into position for swallowing.
- mujahedin — Alt form mujahideen.
- multilane — (of a road or of vehicular traffic) Having more than one lane of traffic traveling in at least one direction.
- mumchance — Mute, or not speaking; silent.
- munchable — an item of food that can be munched; a snack
- mundanely — common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative.
- mung bean — small green legume
- muscadine — a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- muscleman — Informal. a man with a muscular or brawny physique, especially a bodybuilder.
- muskogean — a family of American Indian languages of the southeastern U.S., including Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and several less well-known languages.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- mutagenic — capable of inducing mutation or increasing its rate.
- mute swan — a commonly domesticated soundless white swan, Cygnus olor, of Europe and Asia.
- mycenaean — of or relating to the ancient city of Mycenae.
- myelinate — Of, related to, or composed of myelin.
- myoneural — of or relating to both muscle and nerve.
- mythomane — a person with a strong or irresistible propensity for fantasizing, lying, or exaggerating.
- n'djamena — Chadic.
- nalmefene — a drug, C 21 H 25 NO 3 , used in the treatment of dependence disorders, as alcoholism and narcotics addiction.
- name tape — a fabric tape on which a person's name is written, woven, or printed: for affixing to garments and other personal belongings to identify ownership.
- name-drop — mention famous person to impress
- nameboard — a signboard that identifies a place or object.
- namecheck — A public mention or listing of the name of a person or thing such as a product, especially in acknowledgment or for publicity purposes.
- nameplate — a flat, usually rectangular piece of metal, wood, or plastic on which the name of a person, company, etc., is printed or engraved: She has a large office with her nameplate on the door.
- namesakes — Plural form of namesake.
- namespace — (computing) A conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that have the same names.
- nanometer — one billionth of a meter. Abbreviation: nm.
- nanometre — An SI subunit of length equal to 10-9 metres. Symbol: nm.
- nathemore — nevermore
- near home — concerning one deeply
- near miss — a strike by a missile that is not a direct hit but is close enough to damage the target.
- near-term — for, covering, or involving the very near future: the near-term prospects for lower interest rates.
- nematodes — Plural form of nematode.
- nemertean — any member of the invertebrate phylum Nemertea, comprising the ribbon worms.
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- neogamist — A person recently married; newlywed.
- neon lamp — a gas-discharge bulb containing two electrodes in neon gas and emitting a glow when a voltage is applied across the electrodes.
- neonomian — someone who holds to neonomianism
- neoplasms — Plural form of neoplasm.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nephogram — a photograph of a cloud
- ner tamid — a lamp that is set above and in front of the Holy Ark in a synagogue and is kept burning constantly.
- neurinoma — A schwannoma.
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- new maths — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- new media — developing forms of media, usually electronic, regarded as being experimental.