9-letter words containing m, e, t, r, a, i
- imbricate — overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.
- immatured — Not having matured.
- immigrate — to come to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence.
- imperator — an absolute or supreme ruler.
- impetrate — to obtain by entreaty.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- imprecate — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- incremate — (transitive) To cremate.
- inmigrate — to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory.
- intermale — occurring between males
- intermate — To mate with a member of another species or group.
- inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
- lamartine — Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de [al-fawns ma-ree lwee duh pra duh] /alˈfɔ̃s maˈri lwi də pra də/ (Show IPA), 1790–1869, French poet, historian, and statesman.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- latimeria — any coelacanth fish of the genus Latimeria
- lattimore — Richmond Alexander, 1906–84, U.S. poet, translator, and critic, born in China.
- limewater — an aqueous solution of slaked lime, used in medicine, antacids, and lotions, and to absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
- literatim — word for word and letter for letter; in exactly the same words.
- magisters — Plural form of magister.
- magistery — an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- maitre d' — maître d'hôtel (defs 1–3).
- mannerist — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- marcasite — Also called white iron pyrites. a common mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , chemically similar to pyrite but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
- margarite — Mineralogy. a gray, pink, or yellow mica, occurring in brittle monoclinic crystals. an aggregate of small, rudimentary crystals resembling minute globules in a row: found in glassy volcanic rocks.
- marginate — having a margin.
- marialite — a member of the scapolite group, rich in sodium and containing no calcium.
- marielito — a refugee from Cuba who came to the U.S. in 1980 as part of a mass migration that sailed from Mariel, Cuba.
- marinated — Simple past tense and past participle of marinate.
- marinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marinate.
- marinette — a city in NE Wisconsin.
- marinetti — Emilio Filippo Tommaso [e-mee-lyaw fee-leep-paw tawm-mah-zaw] /ɛˈmi lyɔ fiˈlip pɔ tɔmˈmɑ zɔ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1944, Italian writer.
- maritimer — a native or inhabitant of the Maritime Provinces of Canada
- mark time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- marketing — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- marketise — Alternative spelling of marketize.
- marketize — (economics, management) To convert to management by open-market principles.
- martineau — Harriet, 1802–76, English novelist and economist.
- martinets — Plural form of martinet.
- martyrise — Alt form martyrize.
- martyrize — to make a martyr of: The ancient Romans martyrized many Christians.
- masoretic — of or relating to the Masorah or the Masoretes.
- mastering — a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something: a master of six languages; to be master of one's fate.
- mastigure — Any of the spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastyx.
- materials — the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed: Stone is a durable material.
- materiels — Plural form of materiel.
- maternity — the state of being a mother; motherhood.
- matricide — the act of killing one's mother.
- matronize — to cause to become matronly; cause to act as, or fulfill the role of, matron.