9-letter words containing m, i, c, r, o, s
- micronism — A theoretical microorganism living in the ice or under the surface of Jupiter's ice moon Europa.
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.
- micropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- microserf — (jargon) Wired magazine's term for a Microsoft employee.
- microsite — (Internet) A self-contained page or group of pages meant to supplement a larger website.
- microslop — (company, abuse) A derisive synonym for Microsoft Corporation. It refers to the sloppy, bug-ridden "x.0" versions of MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft products.
- microsoft — Microsoft Corporation
- microsome — a small inclusion, consisting of ribosomes and fragments of the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria, in the cytoplasm of a cell.
- microstat — a negative of a microphotograph made directly from a negative by a copy camera.
- midcourse — the middle of a course.
- miscolour — (transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
- misoclere — hostile to clergy
- misreckon — (transitive) To add (something) up incorrectly, make a wrong calculation of (an amount etc.).
- misrecord — (transitive) To record incorrectly.
- mockeries — Plural form of mockery.
- murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
- musciform — (botany) Having the appearance or form of a moss.
- mycovirus — any fungus-infecting virus.
- narcotism — habitual use of narcotics.
- ostracism — exclusion, by general consent, from social acceptance, privileges, friendship, etc.
- pisciform — shaped like a fish.
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- proxemics — Sociology, Psychology. the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- sacciform — resembling a sac
- scombroid — resembling the mackerel.
- scutiform — being in the shape of a shield; shield-shaped.
- semimicro — using or involving measurements on a scale between micro and macro
- sociogram — a sociometric diagram representing the pattern of relationships between individuals in a group, usually expressed in terms of which persons they prefer to associate with.
- submicron — (of particles) being less than a micron in overall dimensions.
- syndromic — Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
- tricksome — tricksy (def 1).
- trisomics — the study of trisomy
- vorticism — a short-lived avant-garde British art movement that was nurtured by Wyndham Lewis, derived from futurism and cubism, and reached its climax in an exhibition in London in 1915, dwindling in influence after World War I.