9-letter words containing n, o, c, e
- mcconnell — Jack (Wilson), Baron. born 1960, Scottish Labour politician; first minister of the Scottish Parliament (2001–07)
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
- meclozine — Meclizine.
- megacolon — (uncountable) Abnormal dilatation of the colon, not caused by mechanical obstruction.
- megatonic — one million tons.
- melanotic — of or affected with melanosis.
- melocoton — any of several large varieties of peach that ripen late in the season
- melomanic — characterized by a great enthusiasm for music
- mendocino — Cape, a cape in NW California: the westernmost point in California.
- meniscoid — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- menoeceus — a descendant of the Sparti and the father of Jocasta and Creon, who sacrificed himself to end a plague in Thebes.
- meroclone — (biology) A colony-forming stem cell that has a lower growth potential than a holoclone because it is a mixture of stem cells and differentiated cells.
- merocrine — (of the secretion of glands) characterized by formation of the product without undergoing disintegration
- meronymic — Relating to a meronym or meronyms.
- mesocolon — the mesentery of the colon.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- 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.
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- micronise — (British) To reduce in size often to micrometer scale.
- micronize — Break (a substance) into very fine particles.
- microtone — any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
- mimencode — (Originally distributed as "mmencode"). A replacement for uuencode for use in electronic mail and news. Part of MIME. uuencode uses characters that don"t translate well across all mail gateways (particularly those which convert between ASCII and EBCDIC). Also, different variants of uuencode encode data in different and incompatible ways, with no standard. Finally, few uuencode variants work well in a pipe. Mimencode implements the encodings which were defined for MIME as uuencode replacements, and should be considerably more robust for e-mail use. Written by Nathaniel S. Borenstein of Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore) in 1991.
- mischosen — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- misreckon — (transitive) To add (something) up incorrectly, make a wrong calculation of (an amount etc.).
- mitogenic — any substance or agent that stimulates mitotic cell division.
- mnemonics — something intended to assist the memory, as a verse or formula.
- mochiness — a fusty, dank, or humid condition
- mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
- monacetin — acetin.
- monecious — monoecious.
- monocable — an aerial ropeway having a single moving cable.
- monoceros — (obsolete) a unicorn.
- monocline — a monoclinal structure or fold.
- monocoque — a type of boat, aircraft, or rocket construction in which the shell carries most of the stresses.
- monocycle — a one-wheeled vehicle.
- monocytes — (immunology) Plural form of monocyte.
- monoecism — the state of having both male and female organs of reproduction
- monogenic — Biology. bearing either only males or only females.
- monomeric — a molecule of low molecular weight capable of reacting with identical or different molecules of low molecular weight to form a polymer.
- 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.
- monosemic — Of or pertaining to monosemy.
- monospace — Of a typeface, having the same width for each character.
- monticule — a subordinate volcanic cone.
- moonfaced — Alternative spelling of moon-faced.
- moonscape — the general appearance of the surface of the moon.
- mucinogen — any of a group of substances from which mucins are derived
- mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .