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9-letter words containing p, r, e, m

  • melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
  • 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.
  • mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
  • merit pay — an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.
  • merneptah — king of ancient Egypt c1225–c1215 b.c. (son of Ramses II).
  • meropidan — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae
  • merpeople — Plural form of merperson.
  • merperson — A mythological creature with a human upper half (head, arms, and torso) and a piscine lower half.
  • mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
  • mesomorph — a person of the mesomorphic type.
  • metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
  • metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
  • metaphore — Misspelling of metaphor.
  • metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
  • metroplex — a vast metropolitan area that encompasses several cities and their suburbs: We're moving to the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex.
  • metropole — A metropolis; the main city of a country or area. (from 15th c.).
  • micropore — a tiny opening, as in specialized biological filters or in the shells of some animals.
  • micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
  • microtape — (hardware, storage)   /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
  • mid-price — at a medium or average price; not particularly expensive nor particularly cheap
  • midpriced — Alternative spelling of mid-priced.
  • midspread — (statistics) The interquartile range.
  • millepore — a coralline hydrozoan of the genus Millepora, having a smooth calcareous surface with many perforations.
  • misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly
  • mispraise — to praise wrongly or mistakenly
  • mispriced — Simple past tense and past participle of misprice.
  • misprices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misprice.
  • misprized — Simple past tense and past participle of misprize.
  • misprizer — a despiser or scorner
  • misprizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misprize.
  • misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
  • misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
  • mistemper — to disorder or disturb
  • mixer tap — a tap in which hot and cold water supplies have a joint outlet but are controlled separately
  • moonprobe — an information-gathering spacecraft designed to pass close by or land on the lunar surface.
  • mopper-up — a person or thing that mops up.
  • moreporks — Plural form of morepork.
  • morphemes — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
  • morphemic — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
  • morphogen — A chemical agent able to cause or determine morphogenesis.
  • morphoses — Plural form of morphosis.
  • mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
  • mudhopper — an amphibious fish found on mud flats and in mangrove swamps
  • myxospore — a spore produced within any of various fruiting bodies of myxomycetes.
  • n'importe — no matter
  • name-drop — mention famous person to impress
  • neomorphs — Plural form of neomorph.
  • nephogram — a photograph of a cloud
  • operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
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