9-letter words containing m, o, n, c
- mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
- meclozine — Meclizine.
- megacolon — (uncountable) Abnormal dilatation of the colon, not caused by mechanical obstruction.
- megatonic — one million tons.
- melanotic — of or affected with melanosis.
- melocoton — any of several large varieties of peach that ripen late in the season
- melomanic — characterized by a great enthusiasm for music
- mendocino — Cape, a cape in NW California: the westernmost point in California.
- meniscoid — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- menoeceus — a descendant of the Sparti and the father of Jocasta and Creon, who sacrificed himself to end a plague in Thebes.
- meroclone — (biology) A colony-forming stem cell that has a lower growth potential than a holoclone because it is a mixture of stem cells and differentiated cells.
- merocrine — (of the secretion of glands) characterized by formation of the product without undergoing disintegration
- meronymic — Relating to a meronym or meronyms.
- mesocolon — the mesentery of the colon.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- metonymic — Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object.
- 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.
- microbian — (biology) Of, relating to, or caused by, microbes; microbial.
- microdont — abnormally small teeth.
- microinch — a unit of length equal to one millionth of an inch. Symbol: μin.
- microloan — a very small, short-term loan at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- micromini — microminiature.
- micronise — (British) To reduce in size often to micrometer scale.
- micronism — A theoretical microorganism living in the ice or under the surface of Jupiter's ice moon Europa.
- micronize — Break (a substance) into very fine particles.
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.
- microthin — extremely or, sometimes, microscopically thin: a microthin layer of aluminum.
- microtone — any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
- microzoon — a microscopic animal, especially a protozoan.
- 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.
- minicoach — a small bus or buslike van.
- minicomic — A small comic book, especially one that is home-made and self-published.
- mink coat — overcoat made of mink fur
- mischosen — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- miscounts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miscount.
- misogynic — reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women.
- misreckon — (transitive) To add (something) up incorrectly, make a wrong calculation of (an amount etc.).
- mitogenic — any substance or agent that stimulates mitotic cell division.
- mitomycin — any of the antibiotics that come from Streptomyces caespitosus
- mnemonics — something intended to assist the memory, as a verse or formula.
- mocassins — Plural form of mocassin.
- moccasins — Plural form of moccasin.
- mochiness — a fusty, dank, or humid condition
- mock moon — paraselene.
- mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
- mockingly — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- molluscan — Relating to mollusks.