9-letter words containing e, m, i, s, a, r
- epimerase — an enzyme that catalyses the interconversion of epimers
- estimator — A rule, method, or criterion for arriving at an estimate of the value of a parameter.
- examiners — Plural form of examiner.
- firstname — given name.
- fisherman — a person who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
- formalise — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
- frambesia — yaws.
- framboise — raspberry.
- ganderism — foolish behaviour
- geraniums — Plural form of geranium.
- germanism — a usage, idiom, or other feature that is characteristic of the German language.
- germanist — a specialist in the study of German culture, literature, or linguistics.
- germinals — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the seventh month of the year, extending from March 21 to April 19.
- glamorise — (British spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and NZ) alternative spelling of glamorize.
- hampshire — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- harmonies — Plural form of harmony.
- harmonise — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- herbalism — The study or practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, now especially as a form of alternative medicine.
- hetaerism — concubinage.
- hetairism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- icemakers — Plural form of icemaker.
- ideograms — Plural form of ideogram.
- imageries — the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- isomerase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze reactions involving intramolecular rearrangements.
- jeremiads — Plural form of jeremiad.
- kaiserdom — The dignity, rank or office of a kaiser; the state of being a kaiser.
- kaiserism — autocratic rule, like that of a German kaiser.
- 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.
- lexigrams — Plural form of lexigram.
- magisters — Plural form of magister.
- magistery — an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.
- 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.
- malingers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malinger.
- mammaries — Female breasts; Plural form of mammary.
- mammifers — Plural form of mammifer.
- 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.
- mapepires — Plural form of mapepire.
- 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.
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- marinades — Plural form of marinade.
- marinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marinate.
- marketise — Alternative spelling of marketize.
- marquises — Plural form of marquis.
- marriages — Plural form of marriage.
- marseille — a seaport in and the capital of Bouches-du-Rhône department, in SE France.