9-letter words containing r, e, c, l
- mackellar — Dorothea. 1885–1968, Australian poet, who wrote My Country, Australia's best known poem
- mackerels — Plural form of mackerel.
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- marcelled — Simple past tense and past participle of marcel.
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- marchlike — (music) Resembling a march.
- mcalester — a city in E Oklahoma.
- mccullers — Carson [kahr-suh n] /ˈkɑr sən/ (Show IPA), 1917–1967, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- merciless — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
- mercyfull — Obsolete spelling of merciful.
- 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.
- mescalero — a member of a group of Apache Indians who originally inhabited northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. east of the Rio Grande, have intermarried with the Chiricahua and Lipan, and are presently situated in New Mexico.
- metalcore — (music) A genre of rock music related to punk and heavy metal.
- microlite — any microscopic crystal.
- micromole — (chemistry, physics) One millionth of a mole.
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- mill-race — the channel in which the current of water driving a mill wheel flows to the mill.
- millraces — (archaic) Plural form of millrace.
- misoclere — hostile to clergy
- mole crab — a burrowing crustacean of the genus Emerita, found on sandy ocean beaches of North America, having a distinctly curved carapace.
- molecular — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- mr. clean — an actual or idealized person with an impeccable record, reputation, or image, especially a politician (sometimes used with Miss, Ms., or Mrs. instead of Mr. when referring to a female).
- multicore — (computer hardware, of a processor) Combining two or more independent cores into a single package composed of a single integrated circuit.
- necrology — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
- nectareal — of, relating to, or resembling nectar
- neglecter — A person who neglects, or takes no notice of something.
- neglector — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- neuralgic — sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve.
- neurocoel — the system of cavities of the embryonic brain and spinal cord.
- noncereal — not related to or derived from cereal products or industries
- nucleator — having a nucleus.
- nucleolar — of, relating to, or forming a nucleolus.
- numerical — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- obscurely — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- olecranal — the part of the ulna beyond the elbow joint.
- olecranon — the part of the ulna beyond the elbow joint.
- opercular — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- over-cool — moderately cold; neither warm nor cold: a rather cool evening.
- overchill — to make too cold
- overcivil — too civil
- overclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- overclass — a social stratum consisting of educated and wealthy people considered to control the economic power of a country.
- overclean — too clean
- overclear — too clear
- overclock — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.