9-letter words containing m, o, s, h, e
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- meathooks — Usually, meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist: Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.
- mesh knot — sheet bend.
- mesomorph — a person of the mesomorphic type.
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- mesophyll — the parenchyma, usually containing chlorophyll, that forms the interior parts of a leaf.
- mesophyte — a plant growing under conditions of well-balanced moisture supply.
- 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).
- methodism — the doctrines, polity, beliefs, and methods of worship of the Methodists.
- methodist — a member of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of the revival of religion led by John Wesley: stresses both personal and social morality and has an Arminian doctrine and, in the U.S., a modified episcopal polity.
- methodius — Saint (Apostle of the Slavs) a.d. c825–885, Greek missionary in Moravia (brother of Saint Cyril).
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- micromesh — a very fine mesh
- millhouse — a building that houses milling machinery, especially of flour.
- mischoice — a bad or wrong choice
- mischoose — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mischosen — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mishegoss — (slang) Madness; silliness.
- mochiness — a fusty, dank, or humid condition
- moesogoth — one of the Christianized Goths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century a.d.
- molehills — Plural form of molehill.
- molochise — sacrifice to deity
- monkeyish — Like a monkey.
- monophase — (electricity) Having a single phase of alternating current.
- monteiths — Plural form of monteith.
- monthlies — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- moonphase — a phase of the moon
- moonshine — Informal. smuggled or illicitly distilled liquor, especially corn liquor as illicitly distilled chiefly in rural areas of the southern U.S.
- moosehide — The hide of a moose.
- morphemes — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
- morphoses — Plural form of morphosis.
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- mossadegh — Mohammed, 1880–1967, Iranian statesman: premier 1951–53.
- motherers — Plural form of motherer.
- motherese — the simplified and repetitive type of speech, with exaggerated intonation and rhythm, often used by adults when speaking to babies
- mousefish — sargassumfish.
- mousehole — the burrow of a mouse.
- moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- mouthless — Without a mouth.
- moygashel — an Irish linen
- mushmelon — muskmelon.
- mysophobe — A person with an abnormal fear of filth or dirt.
- neomorphs — Plural form of neomorph.
- nontheism — Any of a range of concepts regarding spirituality and religion which do not include the idea of a deity in the form of a theistic god or gods.
- ohmmeters — Plural form of ohmmeter.
- outscheme — to outdo in scheming
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
- phonemics — the study of phonemes and phonemic systems.