9-letter words containing t, e, l, m, c
- monticule — a subordinate volcanic cone.
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- multicell — comprised of or involving many cells or constituent parts; multicellular
- multicide — the murder of many people
- multicore — (computer hardware, of a processor) Combining two or more independent cores into a single package composed of a single integrated circuit.
- muscatels — Plural form of muscatel.
- myelocyte — a cell of the bone marrow, especially one developing into a granulocyte.
- outmuscle — to get the better of or dominate by virtue of superior strength or force.
- place mat — a mat set on a dining table beneath a place setting.
- place-mat — a mat set on a dining table beneath a place setting.
- placement — the act of placing.
- ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
- reticulum — any fine network, esp one in the body composed of cells, fibres, etc
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- scutellum — Botany. the shieldlike cotyledon of certain monocots.
- selectman — (in most New England states) one of a board of town officers chosen to manage certain public affairs.
- stechhelm — a heavy German jousting helm of the 15th and 16th centuries, having a bluntly pointed front with a V -shaped vision slit.
- stem cell — a cell that upon division replaces its own numbers and also gives rise to cells that differentiate further into one or more specialized types, as various B cells and T cells.
- temulence — drunkenness
- tenaculum — Surgery. a small sharp-pointed hook set in a handle, used for seizing and picking up parts in operations and dissections.
- time lock — a lock, as for the door of a bank vault, equipped with a mechanism that makes it impossible to operate the lock within certain hours.
- timescale — The timescale of an event is the length of time during which it happens or develops.
- tylectomy — the surgical excision of a lump or tumour
- uncle tom — a black person, especially a man, considered by other black people to be subservient to or to curry favor with white people.
- witch-elm — wych-elm