9-letter words containing m, i, e, l
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- news film — a film showing main events in the news
- nialamide — an early MAOI antidepressant drug with chemical formula C16H18N4O2
- niemöller — Martin [mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), 1892–1984, German Lutheran clergyman: resisted Nazism.
- nilometer — a graduated pillar by which the rise and fall of the Nile can be measured
- nimblewit — an alert, bright, and clever person
- nominable — capable of, or worthy of, being named
- nonmobile — capable of moving or being moved readily.
- nonmotile — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
- normalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of normalize.
- normalize — to make normal.
- numerical — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- nummuline — relating to a nummulite or a member of the group Nummulitidae or consisting of nummulites
- nummulite — a fossil foraminifer of the genus Camerina (Nummulites), having a calcareous, usually disklike shell.
- nymphlike — Resembling a nymph.
- old media — the media in existence before the arrival of the internet, such as newspapers, books, television, and cinema
- old timer — a person whose residence, membership, or experience began long ago and has been continuing for a considerable length of time; veteran.
- old-timer — a person whose residence, membership, or experience began long ago and has been continuing for a considerable length of time; veteran.
- old-timey — belonging to or characteristic of former times, usually eliciting a sentimental yearning for the past; old-time: an inn with charming, old-timey details.
- oligaemia — a reduction in the volume of the blood, as occurs after haemorrhage
- oligomers — Plural form of oligomer.
- omissible — capable of being or allowed to be omitted.
- oriflamme — the red banner of St. Denis, near Paris, carried before the early kings of France as a military ensign.
- overclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- overlimit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmitate — a salt or ester of palmitic acid.
- papermail — snail mail
- pelmanism — a system of training to improve the memory
- pelviform — basin-shaped
- pennalism — a system of mild oppression and torment practised upon first-year students of German Protestant universities in the 17th century
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- perilymph — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- permalink — a permanent URL that links to a specific web page, typically a single blog entry or news article.
- petit mal — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, episodic loss of attention or sleepiness (petit mal) or by severe convulsions with loss of consciousness (grand mal)
- philomela — the nightingale.
- piecemeal — piece by piece; one piece at a time; gradually: to work piecemeal.
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
- pilgrimer — a pilgrim
- pimpernel — a plant belonging to the genus Anagallis, of the primrose family, especially A. arvensis (scarlet pimpernel) having scarlet or white flowers that close at the approach of bad weather.
- play-time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleiomery — the state of a flower having more than the normal number of parts
- plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
- polemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- policeman — a member of a police force or body.
- policemen — a member of a police force or body.
- polyamide — a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the amide group –CONH–.