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9-letter words containing a, m, g

  • rummaging — to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
  • sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
  • sago palm — any of several tropical Old World palms, as of the genera Metroxylon and Caryota, that yield sago.
  • sargassum — any seaweed of the genus Sargassum, widely distributed in the warmer waters of the globe, as S. bacciferum, the common gulfweed.
  • scalogram — an attitude scale in which a positive answer to an item implies agreement with items appearing lower on the scale.
  • scramming — to go away; get out (usually used as a command): I said I was busy, so scram.
  • screaming — uttering screams.
  • scrimmage — a rough or vigorous struggle.
  • scrummage — scrum (defs 1, 3).
  • segmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
  • semiangle — half of a particular angle
  • shambling — to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.
  • sialogram — an X-ray of a salivary gland
  • sightsman — a tourist guide
  • sigmatism — defective pronunciation of sibilant sounds.
  • sigmatron — a machine for generating X-rays
  • sigmoidal — shaped like the letter C.
  • signalman — a person whose occupation or duty is signaling, as on a railroad or in the army.
  • six sigma — a business management strategy that uses statistical methods to identify defects and improve performance
  • skin game — a dishonest or unscrupulous business operation, scheme, etc.
  • slam-bang — with noisy violence: He drove slam-bang through the garage door.
  • sociogram — a sociometric diagram representing the pattern of relationships between individuals in a group, usually expressed in terms of which persons they prefer to associate with.
  • sparagmos — the tearing to pieces of a live victim, as a bull or a calf, by a band of bacchantes in a Dionysian orgy.
  • spirogram — a record made by a spirograph
  • spodogram — the ash pattern produced by incinerating a plant
  • stigmatic — Also, stigmatical. pertaining to a stigma, mark, spot, or the like.
  • stratagem — a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy.
  • streaming — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
  • strongarm — (processor)   A collaborative project between Digital Equipment Corporation and Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. (ARM) announced on 1995-02-06 licensing the ARM RISC architecture to Digital Semiconductor for the development of high-performance, low power microprocessors. The StrongARM family of 32-bit RISC products developed under the agreement are faster versions of the existing ARM processors with a somewhat different instruction set. They are targetted at applications such as next-generation personal digital assistants with improved user interfaces and communications; interactive television and set-top products; video games and multimedia edutainment systems with realistic imaging, motion and sound; and digital imaging, including low cost digital image capture and photo-quality scanning and printing. The StrongARM family has limited software compatibility with the ARM6, ARM7 and ARM8 families due to its separate caches for data and instructions which causes self-modifying code to fail. The SA-110 is the first member of the family.
  • strongman — a person who performs remarkable feats of strength, as in a circus.
  • sugar gum — a small eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus cladocalyx, having smooth bark and barrel-shaped fruits and grown for timber and ornament. It has sweet-tasting leaves which are often eaten by livestock
  • sugarplum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
  • sung mass — a Mass in which parts of the proper and the ordinary are sung rather than recited; missa cantata.
  • swamp gas — marsh gas
  • symbolang — Lapidus & Goldstein, 1965. Symbol manipulating Fortran subroutine package for IBM 7094, later CDC 6600.
  • synangium — a common vascular junction from which several arteries branch
  • t & g — Transport and General Workers' Union
  • tachogram — the record produced by the action of a tachometer.
  • tagmemics — a school of linguistics deriving from American structuralism based on the work of Kenneth Lee Pike and using the tagmeme as the basic unit of grammatical analysis.
  • tallmadge — a city in NE Ohio.
  • tamazight — a Berber language spoken in Morocco.
  • tampering — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
  • tegmental — of or relating to the tegmentum
  • tephigram — a chart depicting variations in atmospheric conditions relative to altitude
  • termagant — a violent, turbulent, or brawling woman.
  • tetragram — a word of four letters.
  • tomograph — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
  • topmaking — the art or science of blending wool to meet certain specifications
  • trigamist — a person who has three spouses at once
  • trigamous — of or relating to trigamy or a trigamist.
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