9-letter words containing a, r, m, s, e
- jeremiads — Plural form of jeremiad.
- jeroboams — Plural form of jeroboam.
- jerseyman — a native or inhabitant of the island of Jersey.
- jerusalem — a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- jetstream — Alternative spelling of jet stream.
- kaiserdom — The dignity, rank or office of a kaiser; the state of being a kaiser.
- kaiserism — autocratic rule, like that of a German kaiser.
- karyosome — Also called chromocenter. any of several masses of chromatin in the reticulum of a cell nucleus.
- keyframes — Plural form of keyframe.
- keystream — (cryptography) A stream of random or pseudorandom characters that are combined with the plaintext to produce a ciphertext.
- laborsome — Alternative form of laboursome.
- lamenters — Plural form of lamenter.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- lawmakers — Plural form of lawmaker.
- lexigrams — Plural form of lexigram.
- lossmaker — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
- macerates — Plural form of macerate.
- mackerels — Plural form of mackerel.
- mackerras — Sir Charles. 1925–2010, Australian conductor, esp of opera
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- maelstrom — a large, powerful, or violent whirlpool.
- magisters — Plural form of magister.
- magistery — an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.
- magnetars — Plural form of magnetar.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- makeovers — Plural form of makeover.
- malanders — a dry, scabby or scurfy eruption or scratch behind the knee in a horse's foreleg.
- malingers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malinger.
- maltreats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maltreat.
- maltsters — Plural form of maltster.
- malware's — software intended to damage a computer, mobile device, computer system, or computer network, or to take partial control over its operation: tips on finding and removing viruses, spyware, and other malware.
- mammaries — Female breasts; Plural form of mammary.
- mammifers — Plural form of mammifer.
- mandrakes — a narcotic, short-stemmed European plant, Mandragora officinarum, of the nightshade family, having a fleshy, often forked root somewhat resembling a human form.
- maneuvers — Plural form of maneuver.
- maneuvres — Plural form of maneuvre.
- mangroves — Plural form of mangrove.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- mannerism — 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.
- 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.
- mansarded — Having a mansard roof.
- manslayer — a person who kills another human being.
- manspread — (of a man) to sit with one's legs far apart, taking up too much space on a seat shared with other people: guys who manspread on the subway.
- mapepires — Plural form of mapepire.
- mapmakers — Plural form of mapmaker.
- marauders — Plural form of marauder.
- maravedis — Plural form of maravedi.
- marcasite — Also called white iron pyrites. a common mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , chemically similar to pyrite but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.