9-letter words containing m, i, n, e, c
- manicheus — Manes.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- mechanick — Obsolete spelling of mechanic.
- mechanics — a person who repairs and maintains machinery, motors, etc.: an automobile mechanic.
- mechanise — to make mechanical.
- mechanism — an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.
- mechanist — a person who believes in the theory of mechanism.
- mechanize — to make mechanical.
- mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
- meclizine — a compound, C 2 5 H 2 7 ClN 2 , used for preventing nausea of motion sickness, pregnancy, etc.
- meclozine — Meclizine.
- medicinal — of, relating to, or having the properties of a medicine; curative; remedial: medicinal properties; medicinal substances.
- mediciner — a physician
- medicines — Plural form of medicine.
- megachain — A very large and successful chain (group of stores or businesses).
- megatonic — one million tons.
- melanitic — containing, or relating to, melanite
- melanotic — of or affected with melanosis.
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- melomanic — characterized by a great enthusiasm for music
- mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- mendicant — begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
- mendicate — (ambitransitive) To beg.
- mendicity — mendicancy.
- mendocino — Cape, a cape in NW California: the westernmost point in California.
- meniscate — resembling a meniscus
- meniscoid — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- menticide — the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person's values and beliefs, as by the use of prolonged interrogation, drugs, torture, etc., and to induce radically different ideas.
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- merocrine — (of the secretion of glands) characterized by formation of the product without undergoing disintegration
- meronymic — Relating to a meronym or meronyms.
- mescaline — a white, water-soluble, crystalline powder, C 1 1 H 1 7 NO 3 , obtained from mescal buttons, that produces hallucinations.
- messianic — the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
- metonymic — Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object.
- metrician — a metrist.
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- micronise — (British) To reduce in size often to micrometer scale.
- micronize — Break (a substance) into very fine particles.
- microtone — any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
- militance — (uncountable) The condition of being militant.
- millecent — a female given name.
- millicent — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “work” and “strong.”.
- mimencode — (Originally distributed as "mmencode"). A replacement for uuencode for use in electronic mail and news. Part of MIME. uuencode uses characters that don"t translate well across all mail gateways (particularly those which convert between ASCII and EBCDIC). Also, different variants of uuencode encode data in different and incompatible ways, with no standard. Finally, few uuencode variants work well in a pipe. Mimencode implements the encodings which were defined for MIME as uuencode replacements, and should be considerably more robust for e-mail use. Written by Nathaniel S. Borenstein of Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore) in 1991.
- mince pie — a pie filled with mincemeat.
- mincemeat — a mixture composed of minced apples, suet, and sometimes meat, together with raisins, currants, candied citron, etc., for filling a pie.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.