9-letter words containing o, t, m, a, n
- lemon tea — a hot drink that contains lemon juice or tastes of lemon
- luna moth — a large, pale-green, American moth, Actias luna, having purple-brown markings, lunate spots, and long tails.
- macintosh — a raincoat made of rubberized cloth.
- macrodont — the condition of having abnormally large teeth.
- mactation — the act of sacrificial killing
- magnetron — a two-element vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons is under the influence of an external magnetic field, used to generate extremely short radio waves.
- mahometan — a name formerly in Western usage but never used among Muslims for the Muslim religion
- maidstone — a city in Kent, in SE England.
- maintenon — Marquise de (Françoise d'Aubigné) 1635–1719, second wife of Louis XIV.
- malathion — an organic phosphate insecticide, C 10 H 19 O 6 S 2 P, of relatively low toxicity for mammals.
- mammonite — the greedy pursuit of riches.
- mancation — a holiday for a group of men, esp. one that involves typically masculine pursuits
- mandatory — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mangetout — A vegetable pea eaten when immature.
- manicotti — a dish consisting of large, tubular noodles stuffed with a mild cheese and baked in a tomato sauce.
- manifesto — a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.
- manitoban — a province in central Canada. 246,512 sq. mi. (638,466 sq. km). Abbreviation: Man. Capital: Winnipeg.
- manitowoc — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- manometer — an instrument for measuring the pressure of a fluid, consisting of a tube filled with a liquid, the level of the liquid being determined by the fluid pressure and the height of the liquid being indicated on a scale.
- manometry — an instrument for measuring the pressure of a fluid, consisting of a tube filled with a liquid, the level of the liquid being determined by the fluid pressure and the height of the liquid being indicated on a scale.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- mantyhose — a one-piece clinging garment covering the body from the waist to the feet, worn by men
- marathons — Plural form of marathon.
- marlstone — an indurated marl.
- martagons — Plural form of martagon.
- martinson — Harry Edmund [har-ee ed-muh nd;; Swedish hah-ri ed-moo nt] /ˈhær i ˈɛd mənd;; Swedish ˈhɑ rɪ ˈɛd mʊnt/ (Show IPA), 1904–78, Swedish novelist and poet: Nobel prize 1974.
- mash note — an effusive note or letter expressing affection or passion for the recipient, usually a stranger or someone known only casually
- masterson — William Barclay ("Bat") 1853–1921, U.S. frontier law officer.
- mastodons — Plural form of mastodon.
- mastodont — Mastodon.
- matfellon — knapweed
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- matrimony — the state of being married; marriage: He was married in 1870 and lived in matrimony 12 years.
- matronage — the state of being a matron.
- matronize — to cause to become matronly; cause to act as, or fulfill the role of, matron.
- mattaponi — a river in E Virginia, flowing SE to join the Pamunkey and form the York River. 120 miles (193 km) long.
- mediation — action in mediating between parties, as to effect an agreement or reconciliation.
- megatonic — one million tons.
- melanotic — of or affected with melanosis.
- melatonin — a hormone secreted by the pineal gland in inverse proportion to the amount of light received by the retina, important in the regulation of biorhythms: in amphibians, it causes a lightening of the skin.
- mentation — mental activity.
- mentorial — Of or relating to a mentor.
- mestranol — an estrogen, C 2 1 H 2 6 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives in combination with a progestin.
- metagnomy — (rare) divination.
- 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].
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- metazoans — Plural form of metazoan.
- methadone — a synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 8 ClNO, similar to morphine but effective orally, used in the relief of pain and as a heroin substitute in the treatment of heroin addiction.
- migration — the process or act of migrating.
- miltonian — of or relating to the poet Milton or his writings.