9-letter words containing t, e, a, c
- matchless — having no equal; peerless; unequaled; incomparable: matchless courage.
- matchmake — To do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage.
- matricide — the act of killing one's mother.
- mcalester — a city in E Oklahoma.
- mccartney — (Sir) (James) Paul, born 1942, English singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist for the Beatles.
- meatspace — The physical world, as opposed to cyberspace or a virtual environment.
- mechanist — a person who believes in the theory of mechanism.
- mechitzah — mehitzah.
- medicated — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- medicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of medicate.
- megatonic — one million tons.
- melanitic — containing, or relating to, melanite
- melanotic — of or affected with melanosis.
- mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- mendicant — begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
- mendicate — (ambitransitive) To beg.
- meniscate — resembling a meniscus
- mercaptan — any of a class of sulfur-containing compounds having the type formula RSH, in which R represents a radical, and having an extremely offensive, garlicky odor.
- mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
- merchants — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- mercurate — Also, mercuriate [mer-kyoo r-ee-it, -eyt] /mərˈkyʊər i ɪt, -ˌeɪt/ (Show IPA). any salt in which bivalent mercury is part of a complex anion.
- metabatic — Relating to metabasis.
- metabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
- metaclass — (programming) The class of a class in an object-oriented programming language. A metaclass is a class whose instances are themselves classes. Typically there will only be one metaclass, called "Class" or similar, which is the class of all classes including itself. In some languages there will be no metaclass. The idea of a metaclass is closely associated with introspection - the ability of a program to access the structure and logic of itself or other programs.
- metacomet — one of the 12 apostles. Mark 3:18; John 1:43–48; 6:5–7.
- metacryst — a crystal formed by recrystallization of minerals in a metamorphic rock.
- metalcore — (music) A genre of rock music related to punk and heavy metal.
- metalogic — the logical analysis of the fundamental concepts of logic.
- metameric — Also, metameral, M03/M0350800 muh-tam-er-uh l, məˈtæm ər əl. Zoology. consisting of metameres. pertaining to metamerism.
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- metascope — a device for converting infrared radiation into visible light.
- metricate — Change or adapt to a metric system of measurement.
- metrician — a metrist.
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
- micturate — to pass urine; urinate.
- militance — (uncountable) The condition of being militant.
- mimetical — Alternative form of mimetic.
- mincemeat — a mixture composed of minced apples, suet, and sometimes meat, together with raisins, currants, candied citron, etc., for filling a pie.
- minecraft — a type of warship for sweeping mines at sea.
- mira ceti — a binary star one component of which, a red supergiant, is a long-period variable with an average period of 332 days
- miscreant — depraved, villainous, or base.
- miscreate — miscreated.
- mislocate — to misplace.
- moctezuma — Montezuma II.
- monacetin — acetin.
- moot case — a case dealing with an abstract question, or one seeking a judgement on a right before the right has been asserted
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- motorcade — a procession or parade of automobiles or other motor vehicles.
- moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.