9-letter words containing m, t
- availment — (obsolete) Profit; advantage.
- avalement — a skiing technique that involves keeping the knees flexible so as to absorb bumps and remain in contact with the snow
- averments — Plural form of averment.
- avisement — the careful consideration or observation of something
- away team — a team playing away from its home ground.
- awesomest — Superlative form of awesome.
- axanthism — (zoology) Absence of yellow pigmentation.
- axiomatic — If something is axiomatic, it seems to be obviously true.
- axminster — a type of patterned carpet with a cut pile
- azimuthal — Astronomy, Navigation. the arc of the horizon measured clockwise from the south point, in astronomy, or from the north point, in navigation, to the point where a vertical circle through a given heavenly body intersects the horizon.
- aztreonam — A synthetic monobactam originally isolated from Chromobacterium violaceum, similar in action to penicillin.
- backstamp — a mark stamped on the back of an envelope by a post office to indicate the date and place of its arrival
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
- badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- baltimore — a port in N Maryland, on Chesapeake Bay. Pop: 628 670 (2003 est)
- bandmates — Plural form of bandmate.
- baptismal — Baptismal means relating to or connected with baptism.
- barathrum — any deep abyss
- barmaster — (historical) A local judge among miners.
- barnstorm — When people such as politicians or performers barnstorm, they travel around the country making speeches or giving shows.
- barometer — A barometer is an instrument that measures air pressure and shows when the weather is changing.
- barometre — (nonstandard) Alternative form of barometer.
- barometry — the process of measuring atmospheric pressure.
- barthelme — Donald, 1931–89, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
- basements — Plural form of basement.
- bashments — Plural form of bashment.
- batchmate — (India) classmate.
- bath bomb — a ball of carbonates and scent that is placed in bath water to dissolve and impart supposedly therapeutic properties to the water
- bathrooms — Plural form of bathroom.
- batmobile — (slang) To proceed in a fast, urgent, or reckless way, especially in a vehicle.
- batswoman — a female batsman
- batswomen — Plural form of batswoman.
- battement — extension of one leg forwards, sideways, or backwards, either once or repeatedly
- be mother — to pour the tea
- beat time — If you beat time to a piece of music, you move your hand or foot up and down in time with the music. A conductor beats time to show the choir or orchestra how fast they should sing or play the music.
- bedlamite — a lunatic; insane person
- beechmast — collective term for beech nuts, esp when lying on the ground
- behmenist — Boehmenist.
- belemnite — any extinct marine cephalopod mollusc of the order Belemnoidea, related to the cuttlefish
- bell moth — any moth of the family Tortricidae, which when at rest resemble the shape of a bell
- bemonster — to treat as a monster
- bergstrom — Sune (ˈsʊnə). 1916–2004, Swedish biochemist; shared the Nobel prize for medicine and physiology (1982) for work on prostaglandin
- besetment — the state or condition of being beset
- betamaxed — (jargon) When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition. E.g. "Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market". The Betamex videotape standard lost to VHS.
- bethlehem — a town in the West Bank, near Jerusalem: birthplace of Jesus and early home of King David
- betumbled — thrown into disorder
- bevelment — the process of bevelling