10-letter words containing m, o, t, h, e
- meat house — a smokehouse.
- mentorship — a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- mesolithic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a transitional period of the Stone Age intermediate between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic periods, characterized by adaptation to a hunting, collecting, and fishing economy based on the use of forest, lakeside, and seashore environments; Epipaleolithic.
- mesophytes — Plural form of mesophyte.
- mesophytic — Relating to a mesophyte.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.
- mesothorax — the middle segment of the three divisions of the thorax of an insect, bearing the second pair of legs and the first pair of wings.
- metaphoric — 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).
- metatheory — a theory devised to analyze a theory.
- metathorax — the posterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the third pair of legs and the second pair of wings.
- methanogen — any of a diverse group of widely distributed archaebacteria that occur in anaerobic environments, as the intestinal tracts of animals, freshwater and marine sediments, and sewage, and are capable of producing methane from a limited number of substrates, including carbon dioxide and hydrogen, acetate, and methylamines: an important source of natural gas.
- methanolic — Submersed or dissolved in, or obtained with the use of methanol.
- methiocarb — a crystalline compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 2 S, used as a nonsystemic insecticide and miticide.
- methionine — an amino acid, CH 3 SCH 2 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in casein, wool, and other proteins or prepared synthetically: used as a supplement to a special diet in the prevention and treatment of certain liver diseases. Symbol: M. Abbreviation: Met;
- methodical — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- methodists — 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.
- methodized — Simple past tense and past participle of methodize.
- methodizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of methodize.
- methoprene — a synthetic insect juvenile hormone, C 1 9 H 3 4 O 3 , used as a biological pesticide primarily on mosquito and fly larvae to prevent maturing to the adult state.
- methoxides — Plural form of methoxide.
- methylator — A person, company of device that methylates (originally, one that produced methylated spirits).
- methyldopa — a white powder, C 1 0 H 1 3 NO 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- microphyte — a microscopic plant.
- microtherm — a plant requiring a minimum of heat for growth.
- moa hunter — the name given by anthropologists to the early Māori inhabitants of New Zealand
- moeso-goth — a member of a Gothic people that lived in Moesia in the 4th and 5th cent. a.d.
- molestache — (slang, rare) A type of mustache supposedly associated with child molesters.
- money shot — a shot in a pornographic film in which a male performer is seen to ejaculate
- monomethyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) A single methyl group in a molecule.
- monothecal — having a sole compartment or cell
- monotheism — the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
- monotheist — the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
- montrachet — a dry white wine of N Burgundy
- morgenthau — Henry, 1856–1946, U.S. financier and diplomat, born in Germany.
- morphodite — (informal, slang) A comic slang version of hermaphrodite.
- moth-eaten — eaten or damaged by or as if by the larvae of moths.
- mothballed — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- mother hen — a person who attends to the welfare of others, especially one who is fussily protective.
- mother wit — natural or practical intelligence, wit, or sense.
- mother yaw — the initial lesion of yaws, occurring at the site of inoculation.
- motherhood — the state of being a mother; maternity.
- motherland — one's native land.
- motherless — a female parent.
- motherlike — Having the quality or suggestive of a mother; maternal, motherly.
- motherload — A very large amount of something valuable.
- motherlode — (literally) The main, central lode of a natural resource, near which smaller deposits of the same ore etc. exist.
- mothership — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- motherwell — Robert, 1915–91, U.S. painter.
- motherwort — a European plant, Leonorus cardiaca, of the mint family, an introduced weed in the U.S., having cut leaves with a whorl of lavender flowers in the axils.
- motor home — a small bus or trucklike vehicle with a roomlike area behind the driver's seat outfitted as living quarters.