9-letter words containing m, y, a, t
- mythomane — a person with a strong or irresistible propensity for fantasizing, lying, or exaggerating.
- nastygram — (networking) /nas'tee-gram/ 1. A network packet or e-mail message (the latter is also called a letterbomb) that takes advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to do untoward things. 2. Disapproving e-mail, especially from a net.god, pursuant to a violation of netiquette or a complaint about failure to correct some mail- or news-transmission problem. Compare shitogram, mailbomb. 3. A status report from an unhappy, and probably picky, customer. "What did Corporate say in today's nastygram?" 4. [deprecated] An error reply by mail from a daemon; in particular, a bounce message.
- nicky-tam — a strap or string secured round a trouser leg below the knee, formerly worn esp by farm workers to keep the trouser bottoms clear of dirt
- nightmary — (of a person) prone to having nightmares
- normality — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- nystagmic — Exhibiting or pertaining to nystagmus (involuntary eye movement).
- nystagmus — a congenital or acquired persistent, rapid, involuntary, and oscillatory movement of the eyeball, usually from side to side.
- optimally — optimum (def 3).
- orthogamy — (botany) fertilization of the ovules of a plant by pollen from the same plant.
- oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- pa system — a combination of electronic devices that makes sound audible via loudspeakers to many people, as in an auditorium or out of doors.
- palmately — radiating from a central point
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- pantagamy — a communal marriage system amongst members of a community or household
- pantryman — a person who works in or has charge of a pantry, as aboard ship or in a hospital.
- party man — a person belonging to a political party, especially one who adheres strictly or blindly to its principles and policies.
- patrimony — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- play-time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- ply metal — a composition of dissimilar metals bonded together in sheet form.
- polymathy — learning in many fields; encyclopedic knowledge.
- primality — the state of being primal
- prytaneum — a public building in ancient Greece, containing the symbolic hearth of the community and commonly resembling a private dwelling in plan, used as a community meeting place and as a lodging for guests of the community.
- radectomy — excision of part or all of the root of a tooth.
- repayment — to pay back or refund, as money.
- rhathymia — carefree behavior; light-heartedness.
- royalmast — the highest part of a mast
- schmaltzy — of, relating to, or characterized by schmaltz.
- shantyman — a logger or lumberman
- sotomayor — ˈSonia (Maria) (ˈsoʊnjə ) ; sōnˈyə) 1954- ; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (2009- )
- spymaster — an espionage agent who directs a network of subordinate agents.
- st. marys — a river in SE Georgia, forming the E border with Florida, flowing from the Okefenokee Swamp E to the Atlantic Ocean. 175 miles (282 km) long.
- staminody — the metamorphosis of any of various flower organs, as a sepal or a petal, into a stamen.
- staymaker — a corset maker, a maker of stays
- stomatomy — stomatotomy.
- streamway — the bed of a stream.
- styrofoam — Styrofoam is a very light, plastic substance, used especially to make containers.
- sumptuary — pertaining to, dealing with, or regulating expense or expenditure.
- symmetral — relating to symmetry
- sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
- sympatico — simpatico
- sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- synnemata — a spore-bearing structure having very compact conidiophores.
- tampa bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, in W Florida. About 27 miles (43 km) long.
- taphonomy — the circumstances and processes of fossilization.
- taxidermy — the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
- taylorism — a modified form of Calvinism that maintains that every person has a free will, and that makes a distinction between depravity, as the tendency to commit sins, and sin, as a voluntary choice of evil actions.
- tea money — (especially in parts of China) a bribe used to facilitate any business dealing.
- temporary — an office worker hired, usually through an agency on a per diem basis, for a short period of time.