9-letter words containing m, i, t, r, o
- lentiform — lenticular.
- logarithm — the exponent of the power to which a base number must be raised to equal a given number; log: 2 is the logarithm of 100 to the base 10 (2 = log10 100).
- longtimer — One who has been a resident, member, etc. for a long time.
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- māori rat — a small brown rat, Rattus exulans, native to New Zealand
- marielito — a refugee from Cuba who came to the U.S. in 1980 as part of a mass migration that sailed from Mariel, Cuba.
- markowitz — Harry M, born 1927, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1990.
- martinson — Harry Edmund [har-ee ed-muh nd;; Swedish hah-ri ed-moo nt] /ˈhær i ˈɛd mənd;; Swedish ˈhɑ rɪ ˈɛd mʊnt/ (Show IPA), 1904–78, Swedish novelist and poet: Nobel prize 1974.
- masoretic — of or relating to the Masorah or the Masoretes.
- matagouri — a thorny bush of New Zealand, Discaria toumatou, that forms thickets in open country
- matrimony — the state of being married; marriage: He was married in 1870 and lived in matrimony 12 years.
- matronize — to cause to become matronly; cause to act as, or fulfill the role of, matron.
- mediators — Plural form of mediator.
- mediatory — pertaining to mediation.
- meditator — to engage in thought or contemplation; reflect.
- meliorate — (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.
- meliorist — A proponent of meliorism.
- meliority — superiority.
- memoirist — a person who writes memoirs.
- memoriter — by heart; by memory.
- mentorial — Of or relating to a mentor.
- mentoring — a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- meritious — Having merit.
- meroistic — (of an ovary) producing yolk and ova
- merozoite — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) a cell developed from a schizont that parasitizes a red blood cell in the host.
- mestrovic — Ivan [ahy-vuh n Serbo-Croatian. ee-vahn] /ˈaɪ vən Serbo-Croatian. ˈi vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1883–1962, Yugoslav sculptor, in the U.S. after 1946.
- meteorism — A rapid accumulation of gas in the intestine. Meteorism is typically a sign of bowel necrosis from bacterial infection, a life-threatening surgical emergency, and is usually caused by the consumption of large quantities of undercooked pork.
- meteorist — a person who studies meteors
- meteorite — a mass of stone or metal that has reached the earth from outer space; a fallen meteoroid.
- meteoroid — any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor.
- metformin — an oral drug, C 4 H 11 N 5 , used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, often in combination with repaglinide.
- micro$oft — (abuse, company) Microsoft written with a dollar sign, as though there was any doubt that they are a money-making enterprise. This little witticism was probably created before Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates established the philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- microbots — Plural form of microbot.
- microcity — An unusually small city or citylike environment.
- microcyte — Pathology. an abnormally small red blood cell.
- microdata — (statistics) data concerning individuals in a trial, survey etc.
- microdont — abnormally small teeth.
- microdots — Plural form of microdot.
- microlite — any microscopic crystal.
- microlith — a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, especially during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.
- micromort — a unit of risk equal to a one-in-a-million chance of dying
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.
- microsite — (Internet) A self-contained page or group of pages meant to supplement a larger website.
- microsoft — Microsoft Corporation
- microstat — a negative of a microphotograph made directly from a negative by a copy camera.
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
- microthin — extremely or, sometimes, microscopically thin: a microthin layer of aluminum.
- microtome — an instrument for cutting very thin sections, as of organic tissue, for microscopic examination.