9-letter words containing m, o, i
- long-time — You use long-time to describe something that has existed or been a particular thing for a long time.
- longtimer — One who has been a resident, member, etc. for a long time.
- loomingly — So as to loom.
- lose time — delay, fail to act
- luvviedom — the world of actors and the theatre
- lymington — a market town in S England, in SW Hampshire, on the Solent: yachting centre and holiday resort. Pop: 14 227 (2001)
- m o drive — magneto-optical disk
- macaronic — composed of or characterized by Latin words mixed with vernacular words or non-Latin words given Latin endings.
- maccaroni — macaroni.
- macchiato — a hot beverage consisting of espresso and a small amount of foamed milk.
- macedoine — a mixture of fruits or vegetables, often served as a salad.
- macedonia — Also, Macedon [mas-i-don] /ˈmæs ɪˌdɒn/ (Show IPA). an ancient kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula, in S Europe: now a region in N Greece, SW Bulgaria, and the Republic of Macedonia.
- macintosh — a raincoat made of rubberized cloth.
- macrobian — Having an exceptionally long life span.
- macroglia — Any of various glial cells that are larger than microglia.
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- mactation — the act of sacrificial killing
- madarosis — the abnormal loss of eyebrows or eyelashes
- madrileno — a native or inhabitant of Madrid, Spain.
- maggotish — Maggoty.
- magnifico — a Venetian nobleman.
- magnolias — Plural form of magnolia.
- maidstone — a city in Kent, in SE England.
- mail bomb — letter bomb.
- mail drop — a receptacle or one of a series of pigeonholelike slots, as in an office, into which incoming mail is placed for pickup.
- mail room — sorting office for post
- mail slot — a slot, usually covered with a hinged flap, through which letters, etc are delivered to a building
- mail-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- mailcoach — a railway coach specially constructed for the transportation of mail
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- mailorder — Ordered to be delivered to one's home.
- mailrooms — Plural form of mailroom.
- mailshots — Plural form of mailshot.
- mailwoman — (rare) A female postal worker.
- mailwomen — Plural form of mailwoman.
- main body — the hull, as distinguished from the rest of a ship.
- main door — the principal or largest door that is used to enter a building which has more than one door
- main loop — (programming) The top-level control flow construct in an input- or event-driven program, the one which receives and acts or dispatches on the program's input events. See also driver.
- main road — principal street
- mainboard — (computing) motherboard.
- maintenon — Marquise de (Françoise d'Aubigné) 1635–1719, second wife of Louis XIV.
- malacotic — softening, or loss of consistency, of an organ or tissue.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malathion — an organic phosphate insecticide, C 10 H 19 O 6 S 2 P, of relatively low toxicity for mammals.