9-letter words containing m, o, c, h
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- michoacan — a state in SW Mexico. 23,196 sq. mi. (60,080 sq. km). Capital: Morelia.
- microchip — chip1 (def 5).
- microinch — a unit of length equal to one millionth of an inch. Symbol: μin.
- 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.
- micromesh — a very fine mesh
- microthin — extremely or, sometimes, microscopically thin: a microthin layer of aluminum.
- milch cow — milk cow.
- minicoach — a small bus or buslike van.
- mischoice — a bad or wrong choice
- mischoose — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mischosen — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mishpocha — an entire family network comprising relatives by blood and marriage and sometimes including close friends; clan.
- mizoguchi — Kenji (ˈkɛndʒɪ). 1898–1956, Japanese film director. His films include A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring (1925), Woman of Osaka (1940), and Ugetsu Monogatari (1952)
- mochiness — a fusty, dank, or humid condition
- molochise — sacrifice to deity
- molochize — to offer up or immolate to a god
- monachism — monasticism.
- monarchal — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a monarch: monarchal pomp.
- monarchic — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
- monochord — an acoustical instrument dating from antiquity, consisting of an oblong wooden sounding box, usually with a single string, used for the mathematical determination of musical intervals.
- monomachy — (now rare) A fight or other contest between two people or forces; a duel; single combat. (from 16th c.).
- monopitch — having only one slope or a slope with a regular gradient
- monorchid — having or appearing to have only one testis.
- monostich — a poem or epigram consisting of a single metrical line.
- monotroch — a one-wheeled means of transportation, such as a wheelbarrow
- moonchild — a person born under the zodiacal sign of Cancer.
- morphemic — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
- morphinic — of, pertaining to, or resembling morphine
- morphotic — (biology) Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework.
- mortcloth — a funeral cloth spread over a coffin
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- mouchette — a daggerlike form, especially in tracery, created by a segmental and an ogee curve so that it is pointed at one end and circular at the other.
- moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- mummachog — Alternative form of mummichog.
- mummichog — a silver and black killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus, found in fresh, brackish, and salt water along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- mummychog — Alternative form of mummichog.
- munch out — to chew with steady or vigorous working of the jaws, often audibly.
- murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
- mustachio — a mustache.
- mycophagy — the eating of mushrooms
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- myopathic — Pertaining to myopathy.
- ohmically — By means of ohmic heating, the process by which the passage of an electric current through a conductor releases heat.
- omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
- opthalmic — Misspelling of ophthalmic.