9-letter words containing r, i, e, m, a
- imageries — the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream.
- imagineer — a person who practices or is skilled in imagineering.
- imbracery — embracery.
- imbrangle — embrangle.
- imbricate — overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.
- iminourea — guanidine.
- immatured — Not having matured.
- immigrate — to come to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence.
- impearled — Simple past tense and past participle of impearl.
- imperator — an absolute or supreme ruler.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- impetrate — to obtain by entreaty.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- impleader — a procedural method by which an original party to an action may bring in and make a claim against a third party in connection with the claim made against the original party.
- imprecate — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- imre nagy — Imre [im-re] /ˈɪm rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1958, Hungarian political leader: premier 1953–55, 1956.
- in camera — a judge's private office.
- incremate — (transitive) To cremate.
- 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.
- intermale — occurring between males
- intermate — To mate with a member of another species or group.
- inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
- isomerase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze reactions involving intramolecular rearrangements.
- jeremiads — Plural form of jeremiad.
- jigamaree — a trick or manoeuvre
- 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.
- kingmaker — a person who has great power and influence in the choice of a ruler, candidate for public office, business leader, or the like.
- 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.
- latimeria — any coelacanth fish of the genus Latimeria
- lattimore — Richmond Alexander, 1906–84, U.S. poet, translator, and critic, born in China.
- lemuralia — the annual festival in ancient Rome in which the lemures were exorcised from houses.
- lexigrams — Plural form of lexigram.
- limerance — Alternative form of limerence.
- limewater — an aqueous solution of slaked lime, used in medicine, antacids, and lotions, and to absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
- line mark — a trademark covering all items of a particular product line.
- literatim — word for word and letter for letter; in exactly the same words.
- liveryman — an owner of or an employee in a livery stable.
- luminaire — A complete electric light unit (used especially in technical contexts).
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- mackinder — Sir Halford John. 1861–1947, British geographer noted esp for his work in political geography. His writings include Democratic Ideas and Reality (1919)
- macquarie — a river in SE Australia, in New South Wales, flowing NW to the Darling River. 750 miles (1210 km) long.
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- madrilene — a consommé flavored with tomato, frequently jelled and served cold.