9-letter words containing i, s, o, m, r
- dimestore — Alternative spelling of dime store.
- dimissory — dismissing or giving permission to depart.
- disciform — resembling the shape of a disc
- disenamor — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disformed — Simple past tense and past participle of disform.
- dishumour — to upset or offend
- disinform — to give or supply disinformation to.
- domineers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of domineer.
- dosimeter — a device carried on the person for measuring the quantity of ionizing radiation, as gamma rays, to which one has been exposed.
- dosimetry — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.
- dragonism — a strict and domineering manner
- emporiums — Plural form of emporium.
- encrimson — (transitive) To make crimson or redden.
- eroticism — The quality or character of being erotic.
- esoterism — The inward forms of faith and religion; transcendence, mystic experience, and internal realizations of the Divine.
- estimator — A rule, method, or criterion for arriving at an estimate of the value of a parameter.
- exorcisms — Plural form of exorcism.
- filmgoers — Plural form of filmgoer.
- firebombs — Plural form of firebomb.
- firestorm — an atmospheric phenomenon, caused by a large fire, in which the rising column of air above the fire draws in strong winds often accompanied by rain.
- fireworms — Plural form of fireworm.
- forelimbs — Plural form of forelimb.
- formalise — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
- formalism — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- formalist — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- formulise — formulate.
- formulism — adherence to or reliance on formulas.
- fort mims — Fort. Fort Mims.
- framboise — raspberry.
- germiston — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- ginormous — extremely large; huge.
- glamorise — (British spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and NZ) alternative spelling of glamorize.
- gongorism — imitation of the ornate and intricate style of Góngora y Argote.
- gosperism — /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying due to arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them. Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms. See also life.
- hailstorm — a storm with hail.
- hairworms — Plural form of hairworm.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- harmonies — Plural form of harmony.
- harmonise — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harmonist — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- hectorism — the character or actions of a hector
- heirlooms — Plural form of heirloom.
- heroinism — an addiction to heroin
- hiroshima — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: first military use of atomic bomb August 6, 1945.
- histogram — a graph of a frequency distribution in which rectangles with bases on the horizontal axis are given widths equal to the class intervals and heights equal to the corresponding frequencies.
- homefries — Plural form of homefry.
- homegirls — Plural form of homegirl.
- hormisdas — Saint, died a.d. 523, pope 514–523.
- horsemint — a wild mint, Mentha longifolia, introduced into America from Europe, having spikes of lilac flowers.
- humorists — Plural form of humorist.