9-letter words containing m, o, p, e, t
- extempore — Spoken or done without preparation.
- groupmate — A member of the same group.
- haptonema — In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
- helm port — the opening at the stern of a ship, through which a rudderstock passes.
- hemitrope — twin1 (def 5).
- hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
- hemotroph — the material from the maternal bloodstream and placenta that nourishes a mammalian embryo.
- hepatomas — Plural form of hepatoma.
- home port — the port where a ship is registered.
- homeopath — a person who practices or favors homeopathy.
- hypostome — any of several parts or organs of the mouth, as the labrum of a crustacean.
- impastoed — (painting) Painted with an impasto.
- imperator — an absolute or supreme ruler.
- impeticos — to put in a pocket
- impetuous — of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive: an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.
- impiteous — (obsolete) pitiless; cruel.
- impletion — An act of filling; the state of being full.
- importers — Plural form of importer.
- importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
- imposters — Plural form of imposter.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- impotable — (rare) Not drinkable.
- impotence — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- impotency — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- impsonite — a black variety of asphaltite with a jagged fracture.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- leptosome — a person of asthenic build.
- lipectomy — the surgical removal of fatty tissue.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- melitopol — a city in SE Ukraine, NW of the Sea of Azov: battles 1941, 1943.
- mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
- mesophyte — a plant growing under conditions of well-balanced moisture supply.
- metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
- metaphone — (algorithm, text) An algorithm for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to soundex in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <[email protected]>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].
- metaphore — Misspelling of metaphor.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metascope — a device for converting infrared radiation into visible light.
- metroplex — a vast metropolitan area that encompasses several cities and their suburbs: We're moving to the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex.
- metropole — A metropolis; the main city of a country or area. (from 15th c.).
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
- mileposts — Plural form of milepost.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- money pit — sth continually costing money
- monkeypot — the woody, operculate seed vessel of any of certain large South American trees of the genus Lecythis.
- monoptote — a noun that exists in only one case
- monotypes — Plural form of monotype.
- montespan — Marquise de (Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart) 1641–1707, mistress of Louis XIV of France.
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- multipole — (physics) Any of a several forms of static or oscillating distributions of charge or magnetization.