9-letter words containing m, e, n, s, t
- monostele — an individual or sole stele in the middle of the stem or root of a plant that contains tube-like vessels
- monostely — the state of being monostelic
- monostome — having a single mouth, pore, or stoma.
- monotones — Plural form of monotone.
- monotypes — Plural form of monotype.
- monstered — Simple past tense and past participle of monster.
- monteiths — Plural form of monteith.
- montespan — Marquise de (Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart) 1641–1707, mistress of Louis XIV of France.
- monthlies — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- monuments — Plural form of monument.
- moonstone — Also called precious moonstone. a semitransparent or translucent, opalescent, pearly-blue variety of adularia, used as a gem.
- mottelson — Ben R(oy) born 1926, Danish physicist, born in the U.S.: Nobel prize 1975.
- movements — Plural form of movement.
- muniments — muniments, Law. a document, as a title deed or a charter, by which rights or privileges are defended or maintained.
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- musketoon — (now historical) A firearm, similar to a musket but with a shorter barrel and a large bore. (from 17th c.).
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- musteline — belonging or pertaining to the family Mustelidae, including the martens, skunks, minks, weasels, badgers, and otters.
- muster in — to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
- mustering — Present participle of muster.
- mustiness — having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold, as old buildings, long-closed rooms, or stale food.
- mute swan — a commonly domesticated soundless white swan, Cygnus olor, of Europe and Asia.
- mutineers — A person, esp. a soldier or sailor, who rebels or refuses to obey the orders of a person in authority.
- nematodes — Plural form of nematode.
- neogamist — A person recently married; newlywed.
- 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 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.
- news item — story featured in the news
- nimieties — Plural form of nimiety.
- nominates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nominate.
- nonmetals — an element not having the character of a metal, as carbon or nitrogen.
- nonsystem — a system that does not function properly
- nontheism — Any of a range of concepts regarding spirituality and religion which do not include the idea of a deity in the form of a theistic god or gods.
- noontimes — Plural form of noontime.
- numerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of numerate.
- ointments — Plural form of ointment.
- omniscent — Misspelling of omniscient All-knowing.
- 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.
- ornaments — Plural form of ornament.
- oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- passament — passement.
- passement — a garment trimming of gold, silver, linen, or silk thread.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- penstemon — any of numerous chiefly North American plants belonging to the genus Penstemon, of the figwort family, some species of which are cultivated for their showy, variously colored flowers.
- petrinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by, or attributed to, the apostle Peter.
- phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
- ranterism — a radical 17th-century Christian doctrine based on a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and disregard of formal worship