9-letter words containing m, e, n, s, r
- misorient — to orient wrongly or improperly.
- misreckon — (transitive) To add (something) up incorrectly, make a wrong calculation of (an amount etc.).
- misrender — to render imperfectly or wrongly
- missioner — a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work.
- mistering — (initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- modernise — to make modern; give a new or modern character or appearance to: to modernize one's ideas; to modernize a kitchen.
- modernism — modern character, tendencies, or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern.
- modernist — a person who follows or favors modern ways, tendencies, etc.
- moistener — Something used to moisten, especially a cosmetic.
- monastery — a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- monergism — the doctrine that the Holy Ghost acts independently of the human will in the work of regeneration. Compare synergism (def 3).
- monitress — a female student who helps keep order or assists a teacher in school.
- monoceros — (obsolete) a unicorn.
- monoester — a single esterified polybasic acid.
- monsieurs — Plural form of monsieur.
- monstered — Simple past tense and past participle of monster.
- moonrises — Plural form of moonrise.
- mr. bones — the end man in a minstrel troupe who plays the bones.
- murkiness — dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- muster in — to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
- mustering — Present participle of muster.
- mutineers — A person, esp. a soldier or sailor, who rebels or refuses to obey the orders of a person in authority.
- mycerinus — king of ancient Egypt c2600–2570 b.c.: builder of the third great pyramid at ·El· Giza.
- mykerinos — Mycerinus.
- near miss — a strike by a missile that is not a direct hit but is close enough to damage the target.
- neomorphs — Plural form of neomorph.
- neoterism — an innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- new sarum — a city in S England, in SE Wiltshire: nearby Old Sarum was the site of an Early Iron Age hill fort; its cathedral (1220–58) has the highest spire in England. Pop: 43 355 (2001)
- newcomers — Plural form of newcomer.
- newsmaker — a person, thing, or event that is newsworthy: a weekly magazine devoted to stories on newsmakers.
- newsrooms — Plural form of newsroom.
- niggerism — the condition of being a Black person
- nonsmoker — a person who does not smoke.
- normalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of normalize.
- numberous — Obsolete form of numerous.
- numerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of numerate.
- nursemaid — Also called nurserymaid. a woman or girl employed to care for a child or several children, especially in a household.
- oarswomen — Plural form of oarswoman.
- omniverse — A number of supposedly co-existing universes.
- omnivores — Plural form of omnivore.
- on stream — If something such as a new factory or a new system comes on stream or is brought on stream, it begins to operate or becomes available.
- on-stream — in or into regular operation, especially as part of a system, assembly line, or the like: When the new printing press goes on-stream, we'll be able to print twice as many newspapers a day.
- orangeism — the principles and practices of the Orangemen.
- ornaments — Plural form of ornament.
- oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- panderism — the work of a pander
- persimmon — any of several trees of the genus Diospyros, especially D. virginiana, of North America, bearing astringent, plumlike fruit that is sweet and edible when ripe, and D. kaki, of Japan and China, bearing soft, red or orange fruit.