9-letter words containing n, i, e, m
- mendicant — begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
- mendicate — (ambitransitive) To beg.
- mendicity — mendicancy.
- mendocino — Cape, a cape in NW California: the westernmost point in California.
- meningeal — (anatomy) Relating to the meninges.
- meniscate — resembling a meniscus
- meniscoid — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- menninger — Charles Frederick, 1862–1953, and his sons Karl Augustus, 1893–1990, and William Claire, 1899–1966, U.S. psychiatrists.
- mennonite — a member of an evangelical Protestant sect, originating in Europe in the 16th century, that opposes infant baptism, practices baptism of believers only, restricts marriage to members of the denomination, opposes war and bearing arms, and is noted for simplicity of living and plain dress.
- menoetius — a Titan, the brother of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas.
- menominee — a member of a group of American Indian people of northeastern Wisconsin.
- menomonie — a town in W Wisconsin.
- menopolis — an area or city with a high proportion of single men
- menshevik — a member of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party in opposition to the Bolsheviks: advocated gradual development of full socialism through parliamentary government and cooperation with bourgeois parties; absorbed into the Communist party formed in 1918.
- mentalise — Alt form mentalize.
- mentalism — the doctrine that objects of knowledge have no existence except in the mind of the perceiver.
- mentalist — a person who believes in or advocates mentalism.
- mentality — mental capacity or endowment: a person of average mentality.
- mentalize — (usually, in passive) To make mental in nature, rather than physical.
- mentation — mental activity.
- menticide — the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person's values and beliefs, as by the use of prolonged interrogation, drugs, torture, etc., and to induce radically different ideas.
- mentioned — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- mentorial — Of or relating to a mentor.
- mentoring — a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- menuisier — a French joiner
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- merbromin — an iridescent green, water-soluble powder, C 2 0 H 8 Br 2 HgNa 2 O 6 , that forms a red solution when dissolved in water: used as an antiseptic and as a germicide.
- meridians — Plural form of meridian.
- meringues — Plural form of meringue.
- merocrine — (of the secretion of glands) characterized by formation of the product without undergoing disintegration
- meronymic — Relating to a meronym or meronyms.
- meropidan — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae
- merriment — cheerful or joyful gaiety; mirth; hilarity; laughter.
- merriness — The property of being merry.
- mertensia — any of various plants belonging to the genus Mertensia, of the borage family, including the lungworts and the Virginia cowslip.
- mesangial — Of or pertaining to the mesangium.
- mesangium — (anatomy) A thin layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries.
- mescaline — a white, water-soluble, crystalline powder, C 1 1 H 1 7 NO 3 , obtained from mescal buttons, that produces hallucinations.
- messaging — a communication containing some information, news, advice, request, or the like, sent by messenger, telephone, email, or other means.
- messalian — Euchite.
- messalina — Valeria, died a.d. 48, third wife of Claudius I.
- messaline — a thin, soft silk with a twill or satin weave.
- messapian — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- messianic — the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
- messiness — characterized by a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: a messy room.
- metalline — metallic.
- metalling — Present participle of metal.
- metformin — an oral drug, C 4 H 11 N 5 , used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, often in combination with repaglinide.
- metheglin — a variety of spiced mead.
- metonymic — Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object.