9-letter words containing r, e, m, i
- informers — Plural form of informer.
- inmigrate — to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory.
- inner man — a person's spiritual or intellectual being.
- innermost — farthest inward; inmost.
- intercome — (intransitive) To intervene; interpose; interfere.
- intercoms — Plural form of intercom.
- interfirm — occurring between two or more companies
- intermale — occurring between males
- intermate — To mate with a member of another species or group.
- interment — the act or ceremony of interring; burial.
- intermesh — any knit, woven, or knotted fabric of open texture.
- intermine — (obsolete) To intersect or penetrate with mines.
- intermits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermit.
- intermont — located between mountains
- intermure — to wall in
- interterm — a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
- inurement — to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
- inurnment — to put into an urn, especially ashes after cremation.
- iodimetry — iodometry.
- iodometry — a volumetric analytical procedure for determining iodine or materials that will liberate iodine or react with iodine.
- ip number — internet address
- irenicism — the promotion and support of peace and conciliation
- irksomely — In an irksome manner; tediously.
- iron dome — Israel's mobile air defence system
- isomerase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze reactions involving intramolecular rearrangements.
- isomerism — Chemistry. the relation of two or more compounds, radicals, or ions that are composed of the same kinds and numbers of atoms but differ from each other in structural arrangement (structural isomerism) as CH 3 OCH 3 and CH 3 CH 2 OH, or in the arrangement of their atoms in space and therefore in one or more properties. Compare optical isomerism, stereoisomerism.
- isomerize — (chemistry) to convert a compound into a different isomeric form.
- isomerous — having an equal number of parts, markings, etc.
- isometric — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- isotherms — Plural form of isotherm.
- jeremiads — Plural form of jeremiad.
- jigamaree — a trick or manoeuvre
- jump wire — jumper1 (def 6).
- junkerism — the spirit or policy of the Junkers.
- kairomone — A chemical substance emitted by an organism and detected by another of a different species that gains advantage from this, e.g., a parasite seeking a host.
- kaiserdom — The dignity, rank or office of a kaiser; the state of being a kaiser.
- kaiserism — autocratic rule, like that of a German kaiser.
- kermesite — a mineral, antimony oxysulfide, Sb 2 S 2 O, occurring usually in tufts of red capillary crystals.
- kilometer — a unit of length, the common measure of distances equal to 1000 meters, and equivalent to 3280.8 feet or 0.621 mile. Abbreviation: km.
- kilometre — a unit of length, the common measure of distances equal to 1000 meters, and equivalent to 3280.8 feet or 0.621 mile. Abbreviation: km.
- kimberley — a city in E Cape of Good Hope province, in the central Republic of South Africa: diamond mines.
- kingmaker — a person who has great power and influence in the choice of a ruler, candidate for public office, business leader, or the like.
- komintern — Third International.
- konimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of dust in the air.
- kriemhild — the wife of Siegfried and the sister of Gunther.
- lamartine — Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de [al-fawns ma-ree lwee duh pra duh] /alˈfɔ̃s maˈri lwi də pra də/ (Show IPA), 1790–1869, French poet, historian, and statesman.
- lamebrain — a dunce; booby; fool.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.