9-letter words containing m, o, e, n
- honeycomb — a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
- honeymoon — a vacation or trip taken by a newly married couple.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horsemint — a wild mint, Mentha longifolia, introduced into America from Europe, having spikes of lilac flowers.
- hot money — funds transferred suddenly from one country to another chiefly to avoid depreciation in value or to take advantage of higher interest rates.
- hoydenism — The behaviour of a hoyden.
- hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
- hymnodies — Plural form of hymnody.
- hyperonym — (linguistics) Hypernym; superordinate term.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- idomeneus — a king of Crete who fought on the Greek side in the Trojan War
- iminourea — guanidine.
- immersion — an act or instance of immersing.
- immunogen — any substance or cell introduced into the body in order to generate an immune response.
- impletion — An act of filling; the state of being full.
- implexion — a complication or entanglement
- importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
- impose on — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- impotence — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- impotency — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- impounded — Simple past tense and past participle of impound.
- impounder — One who impounds.
- impsonite — a black variety of asphaltite with a jagged fracture.
- in nomine — any of various English polyphonic instrumental compositions of the 16th and 17th centuries using an antiphon for Trinity Sunday as a cantus firmus.
- incommode — to inconvenience or discomfort; disturb; trouble.
- incomplex — Not complex; simple.
- incoterms — Plural form of incoterm.
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- informers — Plural form of informer.
- innermost — farthest inward; inmost.
- intercome — (intransitive) To intervene; interpose; interfere.
- intercoms — Plural form of intercom.
- intermont — located between mountains
- iron dome — Israel's mobile air defence system
- isoenzyme — isozyme.
- jambstone — a stone, or one of the stones, forming one jamb of an opening.
- jamestown — a British island in the S Atlantic: Napoleon's place of exile 1815–21. 47 sq. mi. (122 sq. km).
- jasmonate — a hormone that regulates plant growth
- jazzwomen — Plural form of jazzwoman.
- jolliment — merriment; jollity
- jormunrek — king of the Goths, murderer of Svanhild, the daughter of Sigurd: killed by the Gjukungs; probably identical with Ermanaric (4th century a.d.), the Ostrogothic leader.
- jotunheim — the outer world, or realm of giants; Utgard.
- jumentous — Of, relating to, or smelling like horse urine.
- junkerdom — the Junkers as a group.
- jurywomen — Plural form of jurywoman.
- kairomone — A chemical substance emitted by an organism and detected by another of a different species that gains advantage from this, e.g., a parasite seeking a host.
- kakemonos — (uncommon) Plural form of kakemono.
- kalsomine — to wash or cover with calcimine.
- ketonemia — the presence of ketone bodies in the blood.
- key money — advance rent or security required of a new tenant and given in exchange for the key to the house or apartment.