9-letter words containing p, t
- mazopathy — mazopathia.
- mcpartlin — Antony. born 1975, British television presenter, who appears with Declan Donnelly as Ant and Dec
- meatspace — The physical world, as opposed to cyberspace or a virtual environment.
- melitopol — a city in SE Ukraine, NW of the Sea of Azov: battles 1941, 1943.
- mephitism — poisonous air or a foul smell
- 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).
- mesophyte — a plant growing under conditions of well-balanced moisture supply.
- metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
- metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
- metapelet — a woman who cares for children, especially on kibbutzim in Israel; foster mother.
- metaphase — the stage in mitosis or meiosis in which the duplicated chromosomes line up along the equatorial plate of the spindle.
- 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].
- 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).
- metaphyte — a multicellular plant.
- metaplasm — Cell Biology. the nonliving matter or inclusions, as starch or pigments, within a cell.
- metascope — a device for converting infrared radiation into visible light.
- 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.).
- 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.
- midpoints — Plural form of midpoint.
- mileposts — Plural form of milepost.
- mime type — (file format, protocol, multimedia) The unique identifier used for different file types when conveyed across a MIME-based protocol such as MIME e-mail or HTTP. Registration of MIME types is explained in RFC 2048.
- misprints — Plural form of misprint.
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- mistemper — to disorder or disturb
- mistyping — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- mix it up — to combine (substances, elements, things, etc.) into one mass, collection, or assemblage, generally with a thorough blending of the constituents.
- mixer tap — a tap in which hot and cold water supplies have a joint outlet but are controlled separately
- mixotroph — any organism capable of existing as either an autotroph or heterotroph.
- money pit — sth continually costing money
- monkeypot — the woody, operculate seed vessel of any of certain large South American trees of the genus Lecythis.
- monopitch — having only one slope or a slope with a regular gradient
- monoprint — A form of printing on paper from a glass sheet to which oil paint has been applied; monotype.
- monoptote — a noun that exists in only one case
- monotropy — polymorphism that is irreversible.
- monotypes — Plural form of monotype.
- monotypic — having only one type.
- montespan — Marquise de (Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart) 1641–1707, mistress of Louis XIV of France.
- morphotic — (biology) Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework.
- mossplant — another term for moss
- mothproof — resistant to attack by moths.
- motorship — a ship driven by a diesel or other internal-combustion engine.
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- mouthpart — Usually, mouthparts. the appendages surrounding or associated with the mouth of arthropods.
- multi-ply — having or composed of several plies: a multi-ply fabric.