9-letter words containing m, o, i
- fowl mite — any of various mites parasitic in birds, usually bloodsucking and including the red fowl mite (Dermanyssus gallinae) and the northern fowl mite (Ornithonyssus sylviarum), both pests of poultry
- framboise — raspberry.
- from life — from a living model
- fromentin — Eugene [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), 1820–76, French painter, critic, and author.
- fulminous — Explosive.
- fumarolic — Of or relating to a fumarole or fumaroles.
- fumigator — a person or thing that fumigates.
- fumonisin — Any of a class of neurotoxic, pneumotoxic and hepatotoxic mycotoxins derived from fungi of the genus Fusarium.
- fungiform — having the form of a fungus or mushroom.
- fusionism — the principle, policy, or practice of fusion.
- galeiform — helmet-shaped; resembling a galea.
- gamboling — (US) present participle of gambol.
- gammadion — a decorative figure composed of a number of Greek capital gammas, esp radiating from a centre, as in a swastika
- gammoning — Rope lashings on the bowsprit of a boat.
- gasconism — the quality of being boastful; boastfulness
- gemmation — reproduction by gemmae.
- gemmiform — shaped like a bud.
- geomantic — Of or relating to geomancy.
- geomatics — The discipline of gathering, storing, processing, and delivering geographic information.
- geometric — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
- geometrid — belonging or pertaining to the family Geometridae, comprising slender-bodied, broad-winged moths, the larvae of which are called measuring worms.
- geonomics — a doctrine holding that humans own what is created by them, but that those things found in nature, such as land, belong to no one person but instead belong equally to all mankind
- germiston — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- ginormous — extremely large; huge.
- gizmology — gadgetry; gadgets collectively
- glamorise — (British spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and NZ) alternative spelling of glamorize.
- glamorize — to make glamorous.
- glamourie — Alternative spelling of glamoury.
- gloamings — Plural form of gloaming.
- globalism — the attitude or policy of placing the interests of the entire world above those of individual nations.
- glomeruli — Irregular plural form of glomerulus.
- gloomiest — Superlative form of gloomy.
- gnomelike — Resembling a gnome.
- goddammit — Alternative form of goddamn.
- goddamnit — Alternative spelling of goddammit.
- gold mine — a mine yielding gold.
- gold-mine — a mine yielding gold.
- goldminer — a person who mines gold or works in a gold mine.
- goldsmith — Oliver, 1730?–74, Irish poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist.
- gomphosis — an immovable articulation in which one bone or part is received in a cavity in another, as a tooth in its socket.
- gonangium — a reproductive polyp of a colonial hydroid, giving rise asexually to medusa buds.
- gongorism — imitation of the ornate and intricate style of Góngora y Argote.
- good time — time deducted from an inmate's sentence for good behavior while in prison.
- good-time — time deducted from an inmate's sentence for good behavior while in prison.
- gosperism — /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying due to arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them. Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms. See also life.
- gothamite — a journalistic nickname for New York City.
- gothicism — conformity or devotion to the gothic style in the arts.
- graniform — Formed from or like corn.
- grillroom — a restaurant or dining room, as in a hotel, that specializes in serving grilled meat and fish.
- guillemot — a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle (black guillemot) of the North Atlantic and the similar C. columba (pigeon guillemot) of the North Pacific.