9-letter words containing m, e, r, o, p
- epicormic — (of a shoot or branch) growing from a previously dormant bud on the trunk or a limb of a tree.
- extempore — Spoken or done without preparation.
- germproof — not vulnerable to the action or penetration of germs.
- gosperism — /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying due to arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them. Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms. See also life.
- groupmate — A member of the same group.
- hammerkop — A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the Scopidae family and related to the herons.
- helm port — the opening at the stern of a ship, through which a rudderstock passes.
- hemitrope — twin1 (def 5).
- hemotroph — the material from the maternal bloodstream and placenta that nourishes a mammalian embryo.
- home port — the port where a ship is registered.
- homospore — (botany) any plant producing spores of the same size and type.
- hyperform — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by hypercorrection.
- hyperonym — (linguistics) Hypernym; superordinate term.
- hypoderma — hypodermis.
- imperator — an absolute or supreme ruler.
- imperious — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
- importers — Plural form of importer.
- importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
- imposters — Plural form of imposter.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- impounder — One who impounds.
- improvise — to compose and perform or deliver without previous preparation; extemporize: to improvise an acceptance speech.
- improvize — Alternative spelling of improvise.
- jump rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
- keep from — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- lampooner — Someone who lampoons; someone who pokes fun.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- lorazepam — a benzodiazepine drug, C 15 H 10 Cl 2 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly in the management of acute anxiety and for insomnia.
- macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- madrepore — any true or stony coral of the order Madreporaria, forming reefs or islands in tropical seas.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- man power — the power supplied by human physical exertions: an ancient building constructed entirely by man power.
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- megaspore — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
- meiospore — a haploid spore resulting from meiosis
- mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
- meropidan — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae
- merpeople — Plural form of merperson.
- merperson — A mythological creature with a human upper half (head, arms, and torso) and a piscine lower half.
- mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
- mesomorph — a person of the mesomorphic type.
- metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
- metaphore — Misspelling of metaphor.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metroplex — a vast metropolitan area that encompasses several cities and their suburbs: We're moving to the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex.
- metropole — A metropolis; the main city of a country or area. (from 15th c.).
- micropore — a tiny opening, as in specialized biological filters or in the shells of some animals.
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.