9-letter words containing m, o, s, p
- minorship — the state of being a minor
- misemploy — to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
- mishpocha — an entire family network comprising relatives by blood and marriage and sometimes including close friends; clan.
- misopedia — hatred of children, especially one's own.
- misprison — Misconstruction of misprision.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- misspoken — Simple past tense and past participle of misspeak.
- mock lisp — The Lisp used by the Gosling Emacs editor.
- monocarps — Plural form of monocarp.
- monophase — (electricity) Having a single phase of alternating current.
- monopodes — Plural form of monopode.
- monopoles — Plural form of monopole.
- monopsony — the market condition that exists when there is one buyer.
- monopulse — a radar transmitting a single pulse only
- monoscope — a cathode-ray tube that provides a signal of a fixed pattern, formerly used for testing television equipment at the end of a broadcast day.
- monospace — Of a typeface, having the same width for each character.
- monotypes — Plural form of monotype.
- montespan — Marquise de (Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart) 1641–1707, mistress of Louis XIV of France.
- moonphase — a phase of the moon
- moonscape — the general appearance of the surface of the moon.
- mopboards — Plural form of mopboard.
- moreporks — Plural form of morepork.
- 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).
- morphisms — Plural form of morphism.
- morphoses — Plural form of morphosis.
- morphosis — the sequence or manner of development or change in an organism or any of its parts.
- moss pink — a phlox, Phlox subulata, of the eastern U.S., having showy pink to purple flowers.
- mossplant — another term for moss
- motorship — a ship driven by a diesel or other internal-combustion engine.
- mouse pad — mouse mat
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- mutoscope — A motion-picture device of the late nineteenth century, to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole.
- myographs — Plural form of myograph.
- myriapods — Plural form of myriapod.
- mysophobe — A person with an abnormal fear of filth or dirt.
- myxospore — a spore produced within any of various fruiting bodies of myxomycetes.
- neomorphs — Plural form of neomorph.
- neoplasms — Plural form of neoplasm.
- no-trumps — a bid or contract to play without trumps
- noncampus — not located on a campus of a university, corporation, or any other business or organization
- noncompos — A foolish person.
- off stump — the outside stump opposite the one at which the batsman stands.
- olympiads — Plural form of olympiad.
- on-campus — on the area of land that contains the main buildings of a university or college
- opsomania — an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food
- optimised — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
- optimises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimise.
- optimists — an optimistic person.
- optimizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimize.