9-letter words containing m, i, r, y
- erythrism — A congenital condition of abnormal redness in an animal’s fur, plumage, or skin.
- eurythmic — (music) harmonious.
- everytime — (proscribed) alternative spelling of every time.
- extremity — The furthest point or limit of something.
- familiary — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.
- fogramity — a fogey or antiquated thing
- formality — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
- formicary — an ant nest.
- gimmickry — the use of gimmicks.
- gin rummy — gin4 (def 1).
- grundyism — a prudish adherence to conventionality, especially in personal behavior.
- hail mary — Ave Maria.
- hemihedry — the quality or state of a crystal having hemihedral shape
- himyarite — one of an ancient people of southern Arabia speaking a Semitic language.
- homiliary — a collection of homilies.
- hybridism — Also, hybridity [hahy-brid-i-tee] /haɪˈbrɪd ɪ ti/ (Show IPA). the quality or condition of being hybrid.
- hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.
- hydraemia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hydramide — (organic compound) One of a group of crystalline bodies produced by the action of ammonia on certain aldehydes.
- hydramine — an amine derived from a glycol in which one hydroxyl is replaced by an amino group.
- hydronium — (inorganic chemistry) the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+.
- hyperemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hyperemic — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hypericum — A yellow-flowered plant of a genus that includes the St. John’s worts and rose of Sharon.
- hypermile — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- hypocrism — (obsolete) hypocrisy.
- illyricum — a Roman province in ancient Illyria.
- imaginary — existing only in the imagination or fancy; not real; fancied: an imaginary illness; the imaginary animals in the stories of Dr. Seuss.
- imbracery — embracery.
- immorally — violating moral principles; not conforming to the patterns of conduct usually accepted or established as consistent with principles of personal and social ethics.
- improbity — lack of honesty or moral scruples.
- imre nagy — Imre [im-re] /ˈɪm rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1958, Hungarian political leader: premier 1953–55, 1956.
- infirmary — a place for the care of the infirm, sick, or injured; hospital or facility serving as a hospital: a school infirmary.
- infirmity — a physical weakness or ailment: the infirmities of age.
- inharmony — Lack of harmony.
- iodimetry — iodometry.
- iodometry — a volumetric analytical procedure for determining iodine or materials that will liberate iodine or react with iodine.
- iridotomy — incision of the iris, especially for the formation of an artificial pupil by transverse division of fibers of the iris.
- irksomely — In an irksome manner; tediously.
- isorhythm — a structural feature characteristic of the Ars Nova motet, consisting of a single rhythmic phrase pattern repeated, usually in the tenor, throughout the composition.
- kimberley — a city in E Cape of Good Hope province, in the central Republic of South Africa: diamond mines.
- lacrimary — of or relating to tears or the lacrimal glands
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- liveryman — an owner of or an employee in a livery stable.
- liverymen — Plural form of liveryman.
- lysimeter — an instrument for determining the amount of water-soluble matter in soil.
- macbinary — (file format) An eight-bit wide representation of the data and resource forks of an Macintosh file and of relevant Finder information. MacBinary files are recognised as "special" by several MacIntosh terminal emulators. These emulators, using Kermit or XMODEM or any other file transfer protocol, can separate the incoming file into forks and appropriately modify the Desktop to display icons, types, creation dates, and the like.
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- magistery — an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.
- main yard — a yard for a square mainsail.