9-letter words containing m, e, s, n
- mr. bones — the end man in a minstrel troupe who plays the bones.
- muckiness — The quality of being mucky.
- mud snake — an iridescent black and red snake, Farancia abacura, of southeastern and south-central U.S., having a sharp, stiff tail tip used in manipulating prey into position for swallowing.
- muddiness — The characteristic of being muddy.
- mugginess — The characteristic of being muggy.
- mugginses — Plural form of muggins.
- mumsiness — drabness
- muniments — muniments, Law. a document, as a title deed or a charter, by which rights or privileges are defended or maintained.
- murkiness — dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- muscadine — a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- muscle in — a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
- muscleman — Informal. a man with a muscular or brawny physique, especially a bodybuilder.
- musclemen — Plural form of muscleman.
- mushiness — resembling mush; pulpy.
- mushmelon — muskmelon.
- musketoon — (now historical) A firearm, similar to a musket but with a shorter barrel and a large bore. (from 17th c.).
- muskiness — The characteristic of being musky.
- muskmelon — a round or oblong melon, occurring in many varieties, having a juicy, often aromatic, sweet, yellow, white, or green, edible flesh.
- muskogean — a family of American Indian languages of the southeastern U.S., including Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and several less well-known languages.
- 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.
- muzziness — The state or quality of being muzzy.
- mycerinus — king of ancient Egypt c2600–2570 b.c.: builder of the third great pyramid at ·El· Giza.
- mykerinos — Mycerinus.
- namesakes — Plural form of namesake.
- namespace — (computing) A conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that have the same names.
- near miss — a strike by a missile that is not a direct hit but is close enough to damage the target.
- nematodes — Plural form of nematode.
- neocosmic — Of or relating to the universe in its present state; specifically, relating to the races of human beings known to history.
- neogamist — A person recently married; newlywed.
- neologism — a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
- neomorphs — Plural form of neomorph.
- neoplasms — Plural form of neoplasm.
- neoterism — an innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- 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.
- 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.
- newmanism — the views and theories of John Henry Newman before his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church, in which he held that the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England are compatible with Roman Catholicism.
- news film — a film showing main events in the news
- news item — story featured in the news
- newsmaker — a person, thing, or event that is newsworthy: a weekly magazine devoted to stories on newsmakers.