10-letter words containing r, i, e, m
- microscope — an optical instrument having a magnifying lens or a combination of lenses for inspecting objects too small to be seen or too small to be seen distinctly and in detail by the unaided eye.
- microseism — a feeble, recurrent vibration of the ground recorded by seismographs and believed to be due to an earthquake or a storm at sea.
- microsized — Greatly reduced in size.
- microsleep — a moment of sleep followed by disorientation, experienced especially by persons suffering from narcolepsy or sleep deprivation.
- microsomes — Plural form of microsome.
- microspore — the smaller of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and some fern allies, developing into a male gametophyte. Compare megaspore,
- microstate — ministate.
- microtherm — a plant requiring a minimum of heat for growth.
- microtiter — A titer obtained by the use of very small amounts of reagents.
- microtomes — Plural form of microtome.
- microtones — any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
- microtrend — A very small, specific trend or vogue.
- microtubes — Plural form of microtube.
- microwaved — Simple past tense and past participle of microwave.
- microwaves — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- micturated — Simple past tense and past participle of micturate.
- micturient — Having a need to urinate.
- mid-course — the middle of a course.
- midamerica — Middle America (def 2).
- midcentury — Occurring around the center or middle of the century.
- middelburg — a province in the SW Netherlands, consisting largely of islands. 1041 sq. mi. (2695 sq. km). Capital: Middelburg.
- middle ear — the middle portion of the ear, consisting of the tympanic membrane and an air-filled chamber lined with mucous membrane, that contains the malleus, incus, and stapes. Compare ear1 (def 1).
- middlebrow — a person of conventional tastes and interests in matters of culture; a moderately cultivated person.
- middleware — Software that acts as a bridge between an operating system or database and applications, especially on a network.
- midfielder — a player active in the midfield, as in soccer, often playing both offensively and defensively.
- midwestern — Also, Midwestern. Middle Western.
- mignardise — A bite-sized dessert sometimes served at the end of a meal.
- migraineur — Someone who suffers from migraine headaches.
- migratable — Capable of migrating.
- mileometer — device calculating miles travelled
- militaries — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- militarise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of militarize.
- militarize — to equip with armed forces, military supplies, or the like.
- milk adder — any of numerous, usually brightly marked king snakes of the subspecies Lampropeltis triangulum (doliata), of North America.
- milk fever — Pathology. fever coinciding with the beginning of lactation, formerly believed to be due to lactation but really due to infection.
- mill owner — someone who owns a mill
- millefiore — decorative glass made by fusing multicolored glass canes together, cutting them crosswise, joining them into new groups, embedding the groups in transparent glass, and blowing the resultant mass into a desired shape.
- millefiori — decorative glass made by fusing multicolored glass canes together, cutting them crosswise, joining them into new groups, embedding the groups in transparent glass, and blowing the resultant mass into a desired shape.
- millefleur — having a background sprinkled with representations of flowers, as certain tapestries or pieces of glasswork.
- millepores — Plural form of millepore.
- millerbird — a rare, small, gray-brown, thin-billed warbler, Acrocephalus familiaris, occurring only on the Hawaiian islet of Nihoa: the subspecies that inhabited the islet of Laysan is now extinct.
- millicurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie; 3.70 × 10 7 disintegrations per second. Abbreviation: mCi, mc.
- millihenry — a unit of inductance equal to one thousandth of a henry. Abbreviation: mH, mh.
- milliliter — a unit of capacity equal to one thousandth of a liter, and equivalent to 0.033815 fluid ounce, or 0.061025 cubic inch. Abbreviation: ml.
- millilitre — a unit of capacity equal to one thousandth of a liter, and equivalent to 0.033815 fluid ounce, or 0.061025 cubic inch. Abbreviation: ml.
- millimeter — a unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter and equivalent to 0.03937 inch. Abbreviation: mm.
- millimetre — a unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter and equivalent to 0.03937 inch. Abbreviation: mm.
- milliprobe — an instrument that analyses very small quantities of material
- millstream — the stream in a millrace.
- millworker — A worker in a mill or factory.