9-letter words containing i, m, t, a, e
- spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
- spermatia — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
- staminate — having a stamen or stamens.
- staminode — a sterile or abortive stamen.
- 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
- steampipe — a pipe for conveying steam from a boiler.
- steamship — a large commercial vessel, especially one driven by steam.
- stemmatic — of or relating to a textual stemma
- stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- streaming — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- sublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- summative — additive.
- 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.
- talk time — a prepaid amount of minutes or hours on a mobile phone bill agreement, etc
- tamoxifen — an antineoplastic drug, C 26 H 29 NO, that blocks the estrogen receptors on cancer cells, used in the treatment of breast cancer.
- tampering — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tasimeter — a device for measuring small temperature changes. It depends on the changes of pressure resulting from expanding or contracting solids
- taxidermy — the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
- taximeter — a device fitted to a taxicab or other vehicle, for automatically computing and indicating the fare due.
- tephigram — a chart depicting variations in atmospheric conditions relative to altitude
- terminate — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
- termitary — termitarium.
- terrarium — a vivarium for land animals (distinguished from aquarium).
- the amish — the Amish people
- the mafia — an international secret organization founded in Sicily, probably in opposition to tyranny. It developed into a criminal organization and in the late 19th century was carried to the US by Italian immigrants
- the mains — the main distribution network for water, gas, or electricity
- the media — all the means of communication, as newspapers, radio, and TV, that provide the public with news, entertainment, etc., usually along with advertising
- theomania — a delusional mental illness in which a person believes himself or herself to be God or specially chosen by God, as to found a religious order.
- tillerman — a person who steers a boat or has charge of a tiller.
- timberman — a person who prepares, erects, and maintains mine timbers.
- time lamp — an oil lamp of the 17th and 18th centuries, burning at a fixed rate and having a reservoir graduated in units of time.
- time loan — a loan repayable at a specified date.
- time span — duration, period
- time warp — a hypothetical eccentricity in the progress of time that would allow movement back and forth between eras or that would permit the passage of time to be suspended.
- timeframe — the period of time within which certain events are scheduled to occur
- timesaver — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- timescale — The timescale of an event is the length of time during which it happens or develops.
- timespans — a span of time; time frame.
- timetable — a schedule showing the times at which railroad trains, airplanes, etc., arrive and depart.
- timor sea — an arm of the Indian Ocean, between Timor and NW Australia.
- tinkerman — a manager or coach who continually experiments by changing the personnel or formation of a team from game to game
- tirewoman — a lady's maid.
- tramlined — having tramlines
- tramlines — streetcar track
- trapezium — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
- trasimeno — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria near Perugia: Romans defeated by Hannibal 217 b.c. About 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).
- treadmill — an apparatus for producing rotary motion by the weight of people or animals, treading on a succession of moving steps or a belt that forms a kind of continuous path, as around the periphery of a pair of horizontal cylinders.
- trematoid — relating to a trematode