9-letter words containing o, h, m, i
- mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
- megilloth — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- methodism — the doctrines, polity, beliefs, and methods of worship of the Methodists.
- methodist — a member of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of the revival of religion led by John Wesley: stresses both personal and social morality and has an Arminian doctrine and, in the U.S., a modified episcopal polity.
- methodius — Saint (Apostle of the Slavs) a.d. c825–885, Greek missionary in Moravia (brother of Saint Cyril).
- methodize — to reduce (something) to a method.
- methoxide — methylate (def 1).
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- michoacan — a state in SW Mexico. 23,196 sq. mi. (60,080 sq. km). Capital: Morelia.
- microchip — chip1 (def 5).
- microinch — a unit of length equal to one millionth of an inch. Symbol: μin.
- microlith — a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, especially during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.
- micromesh — a very fine mesh
- microthin — extremely or, sometimes, microscopically thin: a microthin layer of aluminum.
- milch cow — milk cow.
- millhouse — a building that houses milling machinery, especially of flour.
- millionth — coming last in a series of a million.
- minicoach — a small bus or buslike van.
- minorship — the state of being a minor
- mischoice — a bad or wrong choice
- mischoose — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mischosen — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- misgrowth — an abnormal or distorted growth
- mishegoss — (slang) Madness; silliness.
- mishpocha — an entire family network comprising relatives by blood and marriage and sometimes including close friends; clan.
- mixotroph — any organism capable of existing as either an autotroph or heterotroph.
- mizoguchi — Kenji (ˈkɛndʒɪ). 1898–1956, Japanese film director. His films include A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring (1925), Woman of Osaka (1940), and Ugetsu Monogatari (1952)
- mobbishly — in a mobbish, chaotic or turbulent manner
- mochiness — a fusty, dank, or humid condition
- mogadishu — an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Capital: Mogadishu.
- moithered — Simple past tense and past participle of moither.
- molehills — Plural form of molehill.
- molochise — sacrifice to deity
- molochize — to offer up or immolate to a god
- monachism — monasticism.
- monarchic — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
- monkeyish — Like a monkey.
- monoliths — Plural form of monolith.
- monopitch — having only one slope or a slope with a regular gradient
- monorchid — having or appearing to have only one testis.
- monorhine — an animal that has one nasal orifice
- monostich — a poem or epigram consisting of a single metrical line.
- monteiths — Plural form of monteith.
- monthlies — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- monthling — a baby or a thing that is one month old
- moonchild — a person born under the zodiacal sign of Cancer.
- moonishly — in a moonish manner
- moonlight — the light of the moon.
- moonshine — Informal. smuggled or illicitly distilled liquor, especially corn liquor as illicitly distilled chiefly in rural areas of the southern U.S.