9-letter words containing n, e, p, m
- menopolis — an area or city with a high proportion of single men
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- mercaptan — any of a class of sulfur-containing compounds having the type formula RSH, in which R represents a radical, and having an extremely offensive, garlicky odor.
- merneptah — king of ancient Egypt c1225–c1215 b.c. (son of Ramses II).
- meropidan — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae
- merperson — A mythological creature with a human upper half (head, arms, and torso) and a piscine lower half.
- messapian — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- metaphone — (algorithm, text) An algorithm for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to soundex in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <[email protected]>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].
- mince pie — a pie filled with mincemeat.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- mine dump — a large mound of residue, esp from gold-mining operations
- mishappen — (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
- mislippen — to distrust or suspect
- misshapen — badly shaped; deformed.
- misspends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misspend.
- misspoken — Simple past tense and past participle of misspeak.
- money pit — sth continually costing money
- monkey up — To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job. Connotes an extremely crufty and consciously temporary solution. Compare hack up, kluge up.
- monkeypod — a tropical American tree, Samanea saman, of the legume family, having spreading branches and dense heads of small, pink flowers.
- monkeypot — the woody, operculate seed vessel of any of certain large South American trees of the genus Lecythis.
- monkeypox — A viral disease of African origin, related to smallpox and transmitted to humans through fluid exchange by rodents and primates.
- monophase — (electricity) Having a single phase of alternating current.
- monoplane — an airplane with one main sustaining surface or one set of wings.
- monopodes — Plural form of monopode.
- monopoles — Plural form of monopole.
- monoptote — a noun that exists in only one case
- 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
- moonprobe — an information-gathering spacecraft designed to pass close by or land on the lunar surface.
- moonscape — the general appearance of the surface of the moon.
- mophandle — The handle of a mop.
- morphogen — A chemical agent able to cause or determine morphogenesis.
- n'importe — no matter
- name tape — a fabric tape on which a person's name is written, woven, or printed: for affixing to garments and other personal belongings to identify ownership.
- name-drop — mention famous person to impress
- nameplate — a flat, usually rectangular piece of metal, wood, or plastic on which the name of a person, company, etc., is printed or engraved: She has a large office with her nameplate on the door.
- namespace — (computing) A conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that have the same names.
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- neomorphs — Plural form of neomorph.
- neon lamp — a gas-discharge bulb containing two electrodes in neon gas and emitting a glow when a voltage is applied across the electrodes.
- neoplasms — Plural form of neoplasm.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nephogram — a photograph of a cloud
- neptunium — a transuranic element produced in nuclear reactors by the neutron bombardment of U-238: decays rapidly to plutonium and then to U-235. Symbol: Np; atomic number: 93.
- nonexempt — Not exempt.
- nymphaeum — a room or area having a fountain, statues, flowers, etc.