9-letter words containing m, e, l, i, o, r
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- madrileno — a native or inhabitant of Madrid, Spain.
- mailorder — Ordered to be delivered to one's home.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- marielito — a refugee from Cuba who came to the U.S. in 1980 as part of a mass migration that sailed from Mariel, Cuba.
- meliorate — (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.
- meliorism — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- meliorist — A proponent of meliorism.
- meliority — superiority.
- memorials — Plural form of memorial.
- mentorial — Of or relating to a mentor.
- 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.
- microlite — any microscopic crystal.
- micromole — (chemistry, physics) One millionth of a mole.
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- millepore — a coralline hydrozoan of the genus Millepora, having a smooth calcareous surface with many perforations.
- milometer — An odometer graduated in miles.
- mirligoes — dizziness
- misoclere — hostile to clergy
- mobilizer — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- moldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- mollifier — (mathematics) An
- montreuil — a suburb of Paris, in N France.
- moralised — Simple past tense and past participle of moralise.
- moralized — Simple past tense and past participle of moralize.
- moralizer — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- moralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moralize.
- more like — in more accurate terms
- mortalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of mortalize.
- mortalize — (transitive) To make mortal.
- mulierose — (obsolete) Fond of women.
- multicore — (computer hardware, of a processor) Combining two or more independent cores into a single package composed of a single integrated circuit.
- multirole — a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- niemöller — Martin [mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), 1892–1984, German Lutheran clergyman: resisted Nazism.
- nilometer — a graduated pillar by which the rise and fall of the Nile can be measured
- normalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of normalize.
- normalize — to make normal.
- old timer — a person whose residence, membership, or experience began long ago and has been continuing for a considerable length of time; veteran.
- old-timer — a person whose residence, membership, or experience began long ago and has been continuing for a considerable length of time; veteran.
- oligomers — Plural form of oligomer.
- oriflamme — the red banner of St. Denis, near Paris, carried before the early kings of France as a military ensign.
- overclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- overlimit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
- pelviform — basin-shaped
- pleiomery — the state of a flower having more than the normal number of parts
- plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
- polymeric — of or relating to a polymer.
- prolamine — any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- recompile — to put together (documents, selections, or other materials) in one book or work.
- rigmarole — an elaborate or complicated procedure: to go through the rigmarole of a formal dinner.