9-letter words containing a, n, m, e, s, i
- migraines — Plural form of migraine.
- milanaise — served with macaroni, or sometimes spaghetti, that has been flavored with tomatoes, mushrooms, shredded meat, etc.: veal cutlets à la milanaise.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- mindshare — Relative public awareness of a phenomenon.
- mindstate — A state of mind.
- mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
- minibeast — (informal) An insect / bug etc.
- ministate — a small, independent nation.
- minnesota — a state in the N central United States. 84,068 sq. mi. (217,735 sq. km). Capital: St. Paul. Abbreviation: MN (for use with zip code), Minn.
- mischance — a mishap or misfortune.
- miscreant — depraved, villainous, or base.
- misdemean — to misbehave (oneself).
- mishandle — to handle badly; maltreat: to mishandle a dog.
- mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
- mishappen — (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
- mislearns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mislearn.
- mismanage — Manage (something) badly or wrongly.
- misshapen — badly shaped; deformed.
- mizenmast — Alternative spelling of mizzenmast.
- muscadine — a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- near miss — a strike by a missile that is not a direct hit but is close enough to damage the target.
- neogamist — A person recently married; newlywed.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- newmanism — the views and theories of John Henry Newman before his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church, in which he held that the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England are compatible with Roman Catholicism.
- nicknames — Plural form of nickname.
- nominates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nominate.
- normalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of normalize.
- novaesium — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia west of Düsseldorf: founded as a Roman fortress in the 1st century ad. Pop: 152 050 (2003 est)
- nursemaid — Also called nurserymaid. a woman or girl employed to care for a child or several children, especially in a household.
- orangeism — the principles and practices of the Orangemen.
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
- pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- pelmanism — a system of training to improve the memory
- pennalism — a system of mild oppression and torment practised upon first-year students of German Protestant universities in the 17th century
- phenakism — a form of deceit or craftiness
- ranterism — a radical 17th-century Christian doctrine based on a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and disregard of formal worship
- romanised — to make Roman Catholic.
- salt mine — a mine from which salt is excavated.
- salvemini — Gaetano [gah-e-tah-naw] /ˌgɑ ɛˈtɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1957, Italian historian in the U.S.
- sanhedrim — Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- screaming — uttering screams.
- semainier — a chest of the 18th century having seven long drawers: originally meant to hold a week's supply of clothing.
- semantics — Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
- semantide — a type of molecule found in all cells, which changes slowly over time
- semiangle — half of a particular angle