9-letter words containing m, o, n, t
- commented — a remark, observation, or criticism: a comment about the weather.
- commenter — a remark, observation, or criticism: a comment about the weather.
- comminate — to anathematize
- comminute — to break (a bone) into several small fragments
- commonest — belonging equally to, or shared alike by, two or more or all in question: common property; common interests.
- commorant — resident
- commotion — A commotion is a lot of noise, confusion, and excitement.
- communist — A communist is someone who believes in communism.
- community — The community is all the people who live in a particular area or place.
- commuting — the activity of travelling some distance to work every day by car, bus, or train
- competent — Someone who is competent is efficient and effective.
- competing — Competing ideas, requirements, or interests cannot all be right or satisfied at the same time.
- complaint — A complaint is a statement in which you express your dissatisfaction with a particular situation.
- compliant — If you say that someone is compliant, you mean they willingly do what they are asked to do.
- component — The components of something are the parts that it is made of.
- computant — a person who calculates
- computing — Computing is the activity of using a computer and writing programs for it.
- computron — (jargon) /kom'pyoo-tron"/ 1. A notional unit of computing power combining execution speed and storage capacity. E.g. "That machine can't run GNU Emacs, it doesn't have enough computrons!" 2. A mythical subatomic particle that carries computation or information, in much the same way that an electron carries electric charge (see also bogon).
- condiment — A condiment is a substance such as salt, pepper, or mustard that you add to food when you eat it in order to improve the flavour.
- consumate — Misspelling of consummate.
- consumeth — Archaic third-person singular form of consume.
- contagium — the specific virus or other direct cause of any infectious disease
- contemned — to treat or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt.
- contemner — One who contemns, who displays contempt towards another.
- contemnor — to treat or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt.
- contemper — to temper (something) by mixing with something of a different nature
- contempts — Plural form of contempt.
- continuum — A continuum is a set of things on a scale, which have a particular characteristic to different degrees.
- contranym — A word that has two opposing meanings, such as 'cleave' (“come together” or “split apart”).
- contronym — A word with two opposite meanings, e.g., sanction (which can mean both ‘a penalty for disobeying a law’ and ‘official permission or approval for an action’).
- contumacy — obstinate and wilful rebelliousness or resistance to authority; insubordination; disobedience
- contumely — scornful or insulting language or behaviour
- copayment — a fee paid by a subscriber to a service for the use of additional services not covered by the subscription
- cormorant — A cormorant is a type of dark-coloured bird with a long neck. Cormorants usually live near the sea and eat fish.
- corn smut — an ascomycetous parasitic fungus, Ustilago zeae, that causes gall-like deformations on maize grain
- cosmonaut — A cosmonaut is an astronaut from the former Soviet Union.
- cosmotron — a large synchrotron which was used for accelerating protons to high energies (of the order of 1 GeV)
- costuming — a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- crotonism — poisoning by ingestion of croton oil, characterized by burning of the mouth, severe diarrhea, and colic, with possible death from respiratory or circulatory failure.
- cryptonym — a code name or secret name
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
- damnation — According to some religions, if someone suffers damnation, they have to stay in hell for ever after they have died because of their sins.
- damnatory — threatening or occasioning condemnation
- demantoid — a bright green variety of andradite garnet
- demotions — Plural form of demotion.
- demounted — Simple past tense and past participle of demount.
- denotatum — (linguistics, philosophy) Something that is denoted; a referent.