9-letter words containing s, m, i, e
- meringues — Plural form of meringue.
- meristems — Plural form of meristem.
- meritious — Having merit.
- meritless — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- meroistic — (of an ovary) producing yolk and ova
- merriness — The property of being merry.
- mertensia — any of various plants belonging to the genus Mertensia, of the borage family, including the lungworts and the Virginia cowslip.
- mesangial — Of or pertaining to the mesangium.
- mesangium — (anatomy) A thin layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries.
- mescaline — a white, water-soluble, crystalline powder, C 1 1 H 1 7 NO 3 , obtained from mescal buttons, that produces hallucinations.
- mescalism — addiction to mescal, an alcoholic spirit
- mesmerise — to hypnotize.
- mesmerism — hypnosis as induced, according to F. A. Mesmer, through animal magnetism.
- mesmerist — hypnosis as induced, according to F. A. Mesmer, through animal magnetism.
- mesmerize — to hypnotize.
- mesmorise — Misspelling of mesmerise.
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- mesquites — Plural form of mesquite.
- mess with — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- messaging — a communication containing some information, news, advice, request, or the like, sent by messenger, telephone, email, or other means.
- messalian — Euchite.
- messalina — Valeria, died a.d. 48, third wife of Claudius I.
- messaline — a thin, soft silk with a twill or satin weave.
- messapian — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- messianic — the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
- messieurs — plural of monsieur.
- messiness — characterized by a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: a messy room.
- mestizoes — Plural form of mestizo.
- mestrovic — Ivan [ahy-vuh n Serbo-Croatian. ee-vahn] /ˈaɪ vən Serbo-Croatian. ˈi vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1883–1962, Yugoslav sculptor, in the U.S. after 1946.
- metabasis — (rhetoric) A change from one subject to another.
- metallist — a person who works with metals.
- meteorism — A rapid accumulation of gas in the intestine. Meteorism is typically a sign of bowel necrosis from bacterial infection, a life-threatening surgical emergency, and is usually caused by the consumption of large quantities of undercooked pork.
- meteorist — a person who studies meteors
- metestick — a measuring rod
- methodism — the doctrines, polity, beliefs, and methods of worship of the Methodists.
- methodist — a member of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of the revival of religion led by John Wesley: stresses both personal and social morality and has an Arminian doctrine and, in the U.S., a modified episcopal polity.
- methodius — Saint (Apostle of the Slavs) a.d. c825–885, Greek missionary in Moravia (brother of Saint Cyril).
- methystic — intoxicating
- metricise — study metre of poetry
- metricism — the study of metrics
- metrifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metrify.
- micaceous — consisting of, containing, or resembling mica.
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- microdose — (medicine) A very low dose (especially of radiation therapy).
- micromesh — a very fine mesh
- micronise — (British) To reduce in size often to micrometer scale.
- microserf — (jargon) Wired magazine's term for a Microsoft employee.
- microsite — (Internet) A self-contained page or group of pages meant to supplement a larger website.
- microsome — a small inclusion, consisting of ribosomes and fragments of the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria, in the cytoplasm of a cell.
- midcourse — the middle of a course.