10-letter words containing t, o, m, a, e
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.
- matronized — Simple past tense and past participle of matronize.
- matronlike — Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
- mattamores — Plural form of mattamore.
- matte shot — a shot in which parts of the background and sometimes the foreground are masked so that a different background, foreground, image, etc., can be substituted during printing.
- matterhorn — a mountain on the border of Switzerland and Italy, in the Pennine Alps. 14,780 feet (4505 meters).
- matzo brei — small pieces of matzo soaked in water, mixed with beaten eggs, and fried.
- matzo meal — ground matzos.
- meat hooks — the hands or fists
- meat house — a smokehouse.
- meat wagon — an ambulance.
- meatometer — A device to measure the width of a human's urinary meatus.
- meatoscope — (medicine) A speculum for examining a natural passage, such as the urethra.
- mecopteran — mecopterous.
- mediations — Plural form of mediation.
- medication — the use or application of medicine.
- meditation — the act of meditating.
- megadontia — macrodontia.
- megalocyte — (physiology) A large, flattened corpuscle, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anemia.
- meganewton — a unit of force equal to one million newtons
- megastores — Plural form of megastore.
- melaconite — the massive variety of tenorite
- melanocyte — a cell producing and containing melanin.
- meliorated — Made better; improved.
- memorative — (obsolete) commemorative.
- menostaxis — an abnormally prolonged period of menstruation.
- meritocrat — a member of a meritocracy.
- mesoblasts — Plural form of mesoblast.
- mesocratic — (of an igneous rock) composed of light and dark minerals in nearly equal amounts.
- mesolectal — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.
- mesothorax — the middle segment of the three divisions of the thorax of an insect, bearing the second pair of legs and the first pair of wings.
- mess about — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- metabiosis — a mode of living in which one organism is dependent on another for preparation of an environment in which it can live.
- metabiotic — a mode of living in which one organism is dependent on another for preparation of an environment in which it can live.
- metabolise — Alternative spelling of metabolize.
- metabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- metabolite — a product of metabolic action.
- metabolize — (of a body or organ) process (a substance) by metabolism.
- metabolome — (biochemistry, genetics) The complete set of metabolites found in a biological sample; especially that found in a person's body under normal conditions, and when suffering from a disease.
- metagenome — (genetics) all the genetic material present in an environmental sample, consisting of the genomes of many individual organisms.
- metal wood — a structural material consisting of a sheet of metal glued between two veneers or of a veneer glued between two sheets of metal.
- metalloids — Plural form of metalloid.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- metaphoric — 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).
- metapodial — (anatomy, zoology) Of or pertaining to the human metacarpal bones (between the wrist and fingers) or the metatarsal bones (between the ankle and toes); of or pertaining to the equivalent bones in animals.
- metapontum — an ancient Greek city in SE Italy, on the Gulf of Taranto: home of Pythagoras in exile.
- metastasio — (Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi) 1698–1782, Italian poet and dramatist.
- metatheory — a theory devised to analyze a theory.
- metathorax — the posterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the third pair of legs and the second pair of wings.