9-letter words containing i, m, s, c
- sciomancy — divination with the help of ghosts
- scombroid — resembling the mackerel.
- scramming — to go away; get out (usually used as a command): I said I was busy, so scram.
- screaming — uttering screams.
- scrimmage — a rough or vigorous struggle.
- scrimshaw — a carved or engraved article, especially of whale ivory, whalebone, walrus tusks, or the like, made by whalers as a leisure occupation.
- scummiest — consisting of or having scum.
- scutiform — being in the shape of a shield; shield-shaped.
- semantics — Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
- semeiotic — semiotic.
- semi-coma — a light coma from which a person can be roused.
- semicolon — the punctuation mark (;) used to indicate a major division in a sentence where a more distinct separation is felt between clauses or items on a list than is indicated by a comma, as between the two clauses of a compound sentence.
- semicured — partly cured or preserved
- semierect — partly erect
- semimicro — using or involving measurements on a scale between micro and macro
- semiotics — semiotics.
- semitruck — tractor-trailer.
- semivocal — of or relating to a semivowel
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce
- sex crime — an illegal sexual act, activity, or behavior.
- shambolic — very disorganized; messy or confused: I’ve had a shambolic year, the worst ever.
- sickleman — a person reaping with a sickle
- sicklemia — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
- sicklemic — relating to sicklemia
- simpatico — congenial or like-minded; likable: I find our new neighbor simpatico in every respect.
- simscript — A free-form, English-like general-purpose simulation language produced by Harry Markowitz et al of Rand Corp in 1963. It was implemented as a Fortran preprocessor on IBM 7090 and was designed for large discrete simulations. It influenced Simula. Later versions included SIMSCRIPT I.5 and SIMSCRIPT II.5.
- simulacra — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- simulcast — a program broadcast simultaneously on radio and television, or on more than one station, or in several languages, etc.
- slavicism — Slavism.
- smectitic — of, relating to, or designating smectite
- smethwick — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- smiercase — any soft cheese suitable for spreading or eating with a spoon, especially a sour cottage cheese.
- smooching — smutch.
- snail cam — a cam with spiral cross section used for progressive lifting of a lever as the cam revolves
- socialism — a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
- sociogram — a sociometric diagram representing the pattern of relationships between individuals in a group, usually expressed in terms of which persons they prefer to associate with.
- sodomitic — anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex.
- solomonic — of or relating to King Solomon.
- spanaemic — relating to a lack of red corpuscles in blood
- spasmatic — given to spasms
- spasmodic — pertaining to or of the nature of a spasm; characterized by spasms.
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- steadicam — a mechanism for steadying a handheld camera, consisting of a shock-absorbing arm to which the camera is attached and a harness worn by the camera operator
- stemmatic — of or relating to a textual stemma
- stigmatic — Also, stigmatical. pertaining to a stigma, mark, spot, or the like.
- stomachic — of or relating to the stomach; gastric.
- subatomic — of or relating to a process that occurs within an atom.
- subclimax — the development of an ecological community to a stage short of the expected climax because of some factor, as repeated fires in a forest, that arrests the normal succession.
- submicron — (of particles) being less than a micron in overall dimensions.