9-letter words containing m, o, i
- midground — The point between foreground and background in an image.
- midpoints — Plural form of midpoint.
- midseason — The middle part of a season, such as a sporting, television, or growing season.
- migration — the process or act of migrating.
- migratory — migrating.
- milch cow — milk cow.
- mileposts — Plural form of milepost.
- milestone — a stone functioning as a milepost.
- milktoast — milquetoast.
- milkwoman — A woman who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.
- milkwomen — Plural form of milkwoman.
- milkworts — Plural form of milkwort.
- millboard — a strong, thick pasteboard used to make book covers.
- millepore — a coralline hydrozoan of the genus Millepora, having a smooth calcareous surface with many perforations.
- millhouse — a building that houses milling machinery, especially of flour.
- millimole — one thousandth of a mole. Abbreviation: mM.
- millioned — (obsolete) Multiplied by millions; innumerable.
- millionth — coming last in a series of a million.
- millivolt — a unit of electromotive force equal to one thousandth of a volt. Abbreviation: mV, mv.
- millocrat — a member of a government or ruling class of mill owners
- millponds — Plural form of millpond.
- millstone — either of a pair of circular stones between which grain or another substance is ground, as in a mill.
- milometer — An odometer graduated in miles.
- milosevic — Slobodan [sloh-buh-dain] /ˈsloʊ bəˌdɛən/ (Show IPA), 1941–2006, Yugoslav and Serbian politician: president of Serbia 1989–97, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1997–2000, accused of war crimes 2001.
- miltonian — of or relating to the poet Milton or his writings.
- mimencode — (Originally distributed as "mmencode"). A replacement for uuencode for use in electronic mail and news. Part of MIME. uuencode uses characters that don"t translate well across all mail gateways (particularly those which convert between ASCII and EBCDIC). Also, different variants of uuencode encode data in different and incompatible ways, with no standard. Finally, few uuencode variants work well in a pipe. Mimencode implements the encodings which were defined for MIME as uuencode replacements, and should be considerably more robust for e-mail use. Written by Nathaniel S. Borenstein of Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore) in 1991.
- minacious — menacing; threatening.
- mind-body — taking into account the physiological, psychic, and spiritual connections between the state of the body and that of the mind: mind-body medicine.
- mindblown — Having a blown mind.
- minestone — ore, esp iron ore
- mini-boom — a brief period of strong economic growth
- miniation — the act of miniating
- minicoach — a small bus or buslike van.
- minicomic — A small comic book, especially one that is home-made and self-published.
- minitower — a vertical case, smaller than a tower, designed to house a computer system standing on a desk or floor.
- mink coat — overcoat made of mink fur
- minkowski — Hermann [hur-muh n;; German her-mahn] /ˈhɜr mən;; German ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1909, German mathematician.
- minnesota — a state in the N central United States. 84,068 sq. mi. (217,735 sq. km). Capital: St. Paul. Abbreviation: MN (for use with zip code), Minn.
- minor key — a key or mode based on a minor scale.
- minorship — the state of being a minor
- minotaurs — Plural form of minotaur.
- minoxidil — a potent peripheral vasodilator, C 23 H 27 N, used in the treatment of severe hypertension, also applied topically to promote hair growth in some types of baldness.
- minutiose — attentive to very small details
- mirligoes — dizziness
- mirrnyong — (Australia, archaeology) A mound of cooking debris accumulated by Aborigines; a kitchen midden.
- mirroring — mirror
- mis-order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- misbecome — to be unsuitable, unbecoming, or unfit for.
- misbestow — to bestow wrongly
- misbutton — (transitive) To button wrongly.