10-letter words containing m, e, s, t, o
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.
- mattamores — Plural form of mattamore.
- matte shot — a shot in which parts of the background and sometimes the foreground are masked so that a different background, foreground, image, etc., can be substituted during printing.
- mckeesport — a city in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- meat hooks — the hands or fists
- meat house — a smokehouse.
- meatoscope — (medicine) A speculum for examining a natural passage, such as the urethra.
- mediations — Plural form of mediation.
- megastores — Plural form of megastore.
- melezitose — (organic compound) A non-reducing trisaccharide sugar produced by many insects that consume plant sap.
- melitriose — raffinose.
- memoirists — Plural form of memoirist.
- mennonites — a member of an evangelical Protestant sect, originating in Europe in the 16th century, that opposes infant baptism, practices baptism of believers only, restricts marriage to members of the denomination, opposes war and bearing arms, and is noted for simplicity of living and plain dress.
- menostaxis — an abnormally prolonged period of menstruation.
- menstruous — pertaining to menstruation.
- mentioners — Plural form of mentioner.
- mentorship — a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- merozoites — Plural form of merozoite.
- mesenteron — midgut.
- mesoblasts — Plural form of mesoblast.
- mesocratic — (of an igneous rock) composed of light and dark minerals in nearly equal amounts.
- mesokurtic — (of a frequency distribution or its graphical representation) having the same kurtosis as the normal distribution.
- mesolectal — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- mesolithic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a transitional period of the Stone Age intermediate between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic periods, characterized by adaptation to a hunting, collecting, and fishing economy based on the use of forest, lakeside, and seashore environments; Epipaleolithic.
- mesophytes — Plural form of mesophyte.
- mesophytic — Relating to a mesophyte.
- mesorectum — the mesentery of the rectum.
- mesotendon — A vinculum, in vertebrate anatomy.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.
- mesothorax — the middle segment of the three divisions of the thorax of an insect, bearing the second pair of legs and the first pair of wings.
- mess about — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- metabiosis — a mode of living in which one organism is dependent on another for preparation of an environment in which it can live.
- metabolise — Alternative spelling of metabolize.
- metabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- metalloids — Plural form of metalloid.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- metastasio — (Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi) 1698–1782, Italian poet and dramatist.
- meteorites — a mass of stone or metal that has reached the earth from outer space; a fallen meteoroid.
- meteoroids — Plural form of meteoroid.
- methodists — a member of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of the revival of religion led by John Wesley: stresses both personal and social morality and has an Arminian doctrine and, in the U.S., a modified episcopal polity.
- methodizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of methodize.
- methoxides — Plural form of methoxide.
- meticulous — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- metoestrus — metestrus.
- metonymies — a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people.”.
- metronomes — Plural form of metronome.
- metropolis — any large, busy city.
- metroscope — an instrument for examining the cavity of the uterus.
- metrostyle — a device that controls the speed of a player piano
- mettlesome — spirited; courageous.