9-letter words containing a, s, u, m, i
- geraniums — Plural form of geranium.
- guildsman — a member of a guild.
- gymnasium — a building or room designed and equipped for indoor sports, exercise, or physical education.
- housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
- humanised — Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.
- humanists — Plural form of humanist.
- humanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humanize.
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- immusical — (archaic) inharmonious; unmusical; discordant.
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- isogamous — having two similar gametes in which no differentiation can be distinguished, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to heterogamous).
- istambuli — a native or inhabitant of Istanbul.
- kusimanse — (zoology) Several species of dwarf mongoose in genus Crossarchus.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- magnesium — a light, ductile, silver-white, metallic element that burns with a dazzling white light, used in lightweight alloys, flares, fireworks, in the manufacture of flashbulbs, optical mirrors, and precision instruments, and as a zinc substitute in batteries. Symbol: Mg; atomic weight: 24.312; atomic number: 12; specific gravity: 1.74 at 20°C.
- maiasaura — a species of large, herbivorous, duck-billed dinosaur
- maieutics — the Socratic method of eliciting knowledge by a series of questions and answers
- mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- makizushi — Rolled sushi.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malitious — Obsolete form of malicious.
- manicheus — Manes.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- manualism — the theory or practice of education for the deaf employing and promoting the use of sign language as the primary means of communication.
- manualist — an advocate of manualism.
- maquisard — maquis (def 2).
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- marinus i — died a.d. 884, pope 882–884.
- marquises — Plural form of marquis.
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
- marsupium — the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- masculism — Support for male domination of women, for patriarchy; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism.
- masculist — Of or relating to masculism.
- mash unit — a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
- mastigium — an extensible, lashlike, anal organ in certain caterpillars.
- mastigure — Any of the spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastyx.
- maulstick — mahlstick.
- mauritius — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
- measuring — Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units or by comparing it with an object of known size.
- mesangium — (anatomy) A thin layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries.
- micaceous — consisting of, containing, or resembling mica.
- minacious — menacing; threatening.
- minotaurs — Plural form of minotaur.