9-letter words containing t, e, m, p
- impotence — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- impotency — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- imprecate — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- imprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of imprint.
- imprinter — a person or thing that imprints.
- imprudent — not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash.
- impsonite — a black variety of asphaltite with a jagged fracture.
- imputable — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- inpayment — a sum of money paid into a bank account
- jump seat — a movable or folding seat, as in a carriage, taxicab, or limousine, used as an extra seat.
- keep time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- leg stump — either of the outside stumps at which the batsman takes his position.
- leptosome — a person of asthenic build.
- lipectomy — the surgical removal of fatty tissue.
- m-payment — a point-of-sale payment made through a wireless device such as a mobile phone or PDA
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- mancipate — (obsolete) To enslave.
- martemper — (transitive) To subject (steel) to a heat treatment involving austenitization followed by step quenching (at a rate fast enough to avoid the formation of ferrite, pearlite or bainite), used to produce martensite under relatively low stress.
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- meatspace — The physical world, as opposed to cyberspace or a virtual environment.
- melitopol — a city in SE Ukraine, NW of the Sea of Azov: battles 1941, 1943.
- mephitism — poisonous air or a foul smell
- 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
- merit pay — an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.
- merneptah — king of ancient Egypt c1225–c1215 b.c. (son of Ramses II).
- mesophyte — a plant growing under conditions of well-balanced moisture supply.
- metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
- metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
- metapelet — a woman who cares for children, especially on kibbutzim in Israel; foster mother.
- metaphase — the stage in mitosis or meiosis in which the duplicated chromosomes line up along the equatorial plate of the spindle.
- metaphone — (algorithm, text) An algorithm for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to soundex in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <[email protected]>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].
- metaphore — Misspelling of metaphor.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metaphyte — a multicellular plant.
- metaplasm — Cell Biology. the nonliving matter or inclusions, as starch or pigments, within a cell.
- metascope — a device for converting infrared radiation into visible light.
- metroplex — a vast metropolitan area that encompasses several cities and their suburbs: We're moving to the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex.
- metropole — A metropolis; the main city of a country or area. (from 15th c.).
- 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.
- mileposts — Plural form of milepost.
- mime type — (file format, protocol, multimedia) The unique identifier used for different file types when conveyed across a MIME-based protocol such as MIME e-mail or HTTP. Registration of MIME types is explained in RFC 2048.
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- mistemper — to disorder or disturb
- mixer tap — a tap in which hot and cold water supplies have a joint outlet but are controlled separately
- money pit — sth continually costing money