9-letter words containing m, o, r, n
- misinform — to give false or misleading information to.
- misnomers — Plural form of misnomer.
- misorient — to orient wrongly or improperly.
- misprison — Misconstruction of misprision.
- misreckon — (transitive) To add (something) up incorrectly, make a wrong calculation of (an amount etc.).
- missioner — a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work.
- mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
- modernise — to make modern; give a new or modern character or appearance to: to modernize one's ideas; to modernize a kitchen.
- modernism — modern character, tendencies, or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern.
- modernist — a person who follows or favors modern ways, tendencies, etc.
- modernity — the quality of being modern.
- modernize — to make modern; give a new or modern character or appearance to: to modernize one's ideas; to modernize a kitchen.
- moistener — Something used to moisten, especially a cosmetic.
- moldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- momentary — lasting but a moment; very brief; fleeting: a momentary glimpse.
- mon-khmer — a group of Austroasiatic languages that includes Mon, of Burma, and Khmer, the language of Cambodia.
- monarchal — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a monarch: monarchal pomp.
- monarchic — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
- monastery — a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- monastral — denoting certain fast pigments used in paints and inks, derived from phthalocyanine
- monergism — the doctrine that the Holy Ghost acts independently of the human will in the work of regeneration. Compare synergism (def 3).
- moneywort — a creeping plant, Lysimachia nummularia, of the primrose family, having roundish leaves and solitary yellow flowers.
- mongering — a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way (usually used in combination): a gossipmonger.
- monitored — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
- monitress — a female student who helps keep order or assists a teacher in school.
- monoandry — The practice of having one husband at the same time.
- monoboard — Synonym of monoski.
- monocarps — Plural form of monocarp.
- monoceros — (obsolete) a unicorn.
- monochord — an acoustical instrument dating from antiquity, consisting of an oblong wooden sounding box, usually with a single string, used for the mathematical determination of musical intervals.
- monocracy — government by only one person; autocracy.
- monocular — having only one eye.
- monodrama — a dramatic piece for only one performer.
- monoester — a single esterified polybasic acid.
- monograms — Plural form of monogram.
- monograph — a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.
- monolatry — the worship of only one god although other gods are recognized as existing.
- monolayer — molecular film.
- monomeric — a molecule of low molecular weight capable of reacting with identical or different molecules of low molecular weight to form a polymer.
- monometer — a line of verse of one measure or foot.
- monopolar — Having a single pole.
- monoprint — A form of printing on paper from a glass sheet to which oil paint has been applied; monotype.
- monorails — Plural form of monorail.
- monorchid — having or appearing to have only one testis.
- monorhine — an animal that has one nasal orifice
- monorhyme — a poem or stanza in which all the lines rhyme with each other.
- monotower — A monotower is an offshore platform without any workers, which has one leg.
- monotreme — any animal of the Monotremata, the most primitive order of mammals, characterized by certain birdlike and reptilian features, as hatching young from eggs, and having a single opening for the digestive, urinary, and genital organs, comprising only the duckbill and the echidnas of Australia and New Guinea.
- monotroch — a one-wheeled means of transportation, such as a wheelbarrow
- monotropy — polymorphism that is irreversible.