9-letter words containing i, m, s, c
- switchman — a person who has charge of a switch on a railroad.
- symbiotic — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
- symbolics — the branch of theology dealing with the study of the history and meaning of church creeds and confessions.
- symmetric — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- sympatico — simpatico
- sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
- symphonic — Music. of, for, pertaining to, or having the character of a symphony or symphony orchestra.
- symposiac — of, relating to, or suitable for a symposium.
- symptotic — relating to symptosis
- syncytium — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- syndromic — Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
- synechism — a doctrine of philosophical thinking stressing the importance of the idea of continuity: named and advocated by C. S. Peirce.
- synoecism — (in ancient Greece) the union of towns under one capital city
- synonymic — a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms (or opposites), such as Thesaurus.com, is called a thesaurus.
- tagmemics — a school of linguistics deriving from American structuralism based on the work of Kenneth Lee Pike and using the tagmeme as the basic unit of grammatical analysis.
- tectonism — diastrophism (def 1).
- thomistic — the theological and philosophical system of Thomas Aquinas.
- time suck — something that takes up too much of one's time: Social media is addictive and a huge time suck when I should be studying.
- timescale — The timescale of an event is the length of time during which it happens or develops.
- tricksome — tricksy (def 1).
- trisomics — the study of trisomy
- triticism — something trite
- umbilicus — Anatomy. the depression in the center of the surface of the abdomen indicating the point of attachment of the umbilical cord to the embryo; navel.
- unmusical — not musical; deficient in melody, harmony, rhythm, or tone.
- victimise — to make a victim of.
- volcanism — the phenomena connected with volcanoes and volcanic activity.
- vorticism — a short-lived avant-garde British art movement that was nurtured by Wyndham Lewis, derived from futurism and cubism, and reached its climax in an exhibition in London in 1915, dwindling in influence after World War I.
- vulcanism — volcanism.
- whimsical — given to whimsy or fanciful notions; capricious: a pixyish, whimsical fellow.
- witticism — a witty remark or sentence.