9-letter words containing t, r, e, n, s
- mannerist — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
- marinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marinate.
- marlstone — an indurated marl.
- martinets — Plural form of martinet.
- mastering — a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something: a master of six languages; to be master of one's fate.
- masterson — William Barclay ("Bat") 1853–1921, U.S. frontier law officer.
- menstrate — Misspelling of menstruate.
- menstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- menstruum — a solvent.
- mensurate — (obsolete) To measure absolutely the height, lattitude and longitude of a point on the earth.
- merchants — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- merestone — A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark.
- mertensia — any of various plants belonging to the genus Mertensia, of the borage family, including the lungworts and the Virginia cowslip.
- mesentery — the membrane, consisting of a double layer of peritoneum, that invests the intestines, attaching them to the posterior wall of the abdomen, maintaining them in position in the abdominal cavity, and supplying them with blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics, especially the part of this membrane investing the jejunum and ileum.
- mestranol — an estrogen, C 2 1 H 2 6 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives in combination with a progestin.
- ministers — Plural form of minister.
- minstrels — Plural form of minstrel.
- miscreant — depraved, villainous, or base.
- mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
- misorient — to orient wrongly or improperly.
- mistering — (initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- modernist — a person who follows or favors modern ways, tendencies, etc.
- moistener — Something used to moisten, especially a cosmetic.
- monastery — a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- monitress — a female student who helps keep order or assists a teacher in school.
- monoester — a single esterified polybasic acid.
- monstered — Simple past tense and past participle of monster.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- muster in — to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
- mustering — Present participle of muster.
- mutineers — A person, esp. a soldier or sailor, who rebels or refuses to obey the orders of a person in authority.
- narcotise — Alternative spelling of narcotize.
- narrowest — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- narthexes — Plural form of narthex.
- navicerts — Plural form of navicert.
- near east — an indefinite geographical or regional term, usually referring to the countries of SW Asia, including Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia and the other nations of the Arabian Peninsula. Compare Middle East (def 1).
- necrotise — to undergo necrosis.
- nectaries — Botany. an organ or part that secretes nectar.
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- neoterism — an innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.
- neoterist — a person who is keen on innovation and novelty
- nephritis — inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.
- nervosity — the quality of being nervous; nervousness.
- nestorian — one of a sect of followers of Nestorius who denied the hypostatic union and were represented as maintaining the existence of two distinct persons in Christ.
- nestorius — died a.d. 451? Syrian ecclesiastic: patriarch of Constantinople 428–431.
- neuristor — a microelectronic fiberlike device used in information processing.
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- neurotics — Plural form of neurotic.
- neustrian — the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.