9-letter words containing m, e, c
- megatonic — one million tons.
- melaleuca — any of various chiefly Australian shrubs or trees belonging to the genus Melaleuca, of the myrtle family, including the cajeput and several species of bottlebrush.
- melanitic — containing, or relating to, melanite
- melanotic — of or affected with melanosis.
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- melocoton — any of several large varieties of peach that ripen late in the season
- melomanic — characterized by a great enthusiasm for music
- meloxicam — an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat osteoarthritis
- mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- mendicant — begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
- mendicate — (ambitransitive) To beg.
- mendicity — mendicancy.
- mendocino — Cape, a cape in NW California: the westernmost point in California.
- meniscate — resembling a meniscus
- meniscoid — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- menoeceus — a descendant of the Sparti and the father of Jocasta and Creon, who sacrificed himself to end a plague in Thebes.
- menticide — the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person's values and beliefs, as by the use of prolonged interrogation, drugs, torture, etc., and to induce radically different ideas.
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- mercaptan — any of a class of sulfur-containing compounds having the type formula RSH, in which R represents a radical, and having an extremely offensive, garlicky odor.
- mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
- mercenary — working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal.
- mercerize — to treat (cotton yarns or fabric) with caustic alkali under tension, in order to increase strength, luster, and affinity for dye.
- merchants — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- mercified — Simple past tense and past participle of mercify.
- merciless — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
- mercurate — Also, mercuriate [mer-kyoo r-ee-it, -eyt] /mərˈkyʊər i ɪt, -ˌeɪt/ (Show IPA). any salt in which bivalent mercury is part of a complex anion.
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
- mercurify — to mix with mercury; amalgamate.
- mercurius — (Mercurius) died a.d. 535, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 533–535.
- mercurize — mercurate (def 2).
- mercurous — containing univalent mercury, Hg +1 or Hg 2 +2 .
- mercyfull — Obsolete spelling of merciful.
- meroclone — (biology) A colony-forming stem cell that has a lower growth potential than a holoclone because it is a mixture of stem cells and differentiated cells.
- merocrine — (of the secretion of glands) characterized by formation of the product without undergoing disintegration
- meroistic — (of an ovary) producing yolk and ova
- meronymic — Relating to a meronym or meronyms.
- merrimack — a town in S New Hampshire.
- mescalero — a member of a group of Apache Indians who originally inhabited northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. east of the Rio Grande, have intermarried with the Chiricahua and Lipan, and are presently situated in New Mexico.
- 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
- mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
- mesocecum — the mesentery of the cecum.
- mesocolon — the mesentery of the colon.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- mesoscale — pertaining to meteorological phenomena, such as wind circulation and cloud patterns, that are about 1–100 km (0.6–60 miles) in horizontal extent.
- mess call — a bugle call for mess.
- mess deck — the part of a ship for crew members to relax, sleep, and eat
- messianic — the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
- mestrovic — Ivan [ahy-vuh n Serbo-Croatian. ee-vahn] /ˈaɪ vən Serbo-Croatian. ˈi vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1883–1962, Yugoslav sculptor, in the U.S. after 1946.
- metabatic — Relating to metabasis.