9-letter words containing a, r, m, e, s
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
- pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- pressmark — a symbol indicating the location of a book in the library.
- primacies — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- primaries — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- quagmires — Plural form of quagmire.
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- racemates — Plural form of racemate.
- rakeshame — a shamefully dissolute person; rogue
- ramillies — a village in central Belgium: Marlborough's defeat of the French 1706.
- ramses ii — 1292–1225 b.c, king of ancient Egypt.
- ranterism — a radical 17th-century Christian doctrine based on a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and disregard of formal worship
- rasmussen — Knud Johan Victor [knooth yoo-hahn veek-tawr] /knuð yʊˈhɑn ˈvik tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1879–1933, Danish arctic explorer.
- reaffirms — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- realmless — having no realm
- red maids — a fleshy plant, Calandrinia ciliata menziesi, of the purslane family, native to the western U.S., having rose-colored or crimson flowers.
- redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- remeasure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- resampled — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- rest camp — a camp where soldiers rest
- rest mass — the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body.
- romanesco — a variety of green cauliflower
- romanised — to make Roman Catholic.
- rosemarie — a female given name.
- rosemarys — a female given name.
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- sailmaker — a person who makes or repairs sails.
- salesroom — a room in which goods are sold or displayed.
- salimeter — salinometer.
- salometer — salinometer.
- 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.
- sapraemia — blood poisoning caused by toxins of putrefactive bacteria
- sarcomere — any of the segments of myofibril in striated muscle fibers.
- sarcosome — a mitochondrion occurring in a muscle fiber.
- sarmentum — a slender running stem; runner.
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- sarum use — the liturgy or modified form of the Roman rite used in Salisbury before the Reformation and revived in part by some English churches.
- satu-mare — a city in NW Romania.
- sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
- scamander — ancient name of the river Menderes.
- scampered — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scrambler — a person or thing that scrambles.
- screaming — uttering screams.
- scrimmage — a rough or vigorous struggle.
- scrummage — scrum (defs 1, 3).