9-letter words containing m, a, c, e
- showmance — a romance between two stars that only lasts for the run of the show
- 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.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- slamdance — to hurl oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock concert
- smackeroo — a hard slap or swat: He gave the ball a smackeroo.
- smackhead — a person who is addicted to heroin
- smearcase — any soft cheese suitable for spreading or eating with a spoon, especially a sour cottage cheese.
- smiercase — any soft cheese suitable for spreading or eating with a spoon, especially a sour cottage cheese.
- smokejack — an apparatus for turning a roasting spit, set in motion by the current of ascending gases in a chimney.
- somascope — a medical instrument used to inspect internal organs for disease
- someplace — somewhere.
- space man — space writer.
- spanaemic — relating to a lack of red corpuscles in blood
- 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
- stomacher — a richly ornamented garment covering the stomach and chest, worn by both sexes in the 15th and 16th centuries, and later worn under a bodice by women.
- subschema — a part of a computer database which is used by an individual
- sun cream — a chemical, usually in the form of a cream, applied to exposed skin to block out all or almost all of the ultraviolet rays of the sun
- supremacy — the state of being supreme.
- 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.
- tenaculum — Surgery. a small sharp-pointed hook set in a handle, used for seizing and picking up parts in operations and dissections.
- theomachy — a battle with or among the gods.
- theomancy — divination or prophecy by an oracle or by people directly inspired by a god
- timescale — The timescale of an event is the length of time during which it happens or develops.
- ulmaceous — belonging to the Ulmaceae, the elm family of plants.
- unamerced — not amerced or punished
- uncharmed — marked by good fortune or privilege: a charmed life.
- unclaimed — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- unclamped — to fasten with or fix in a clamp.
- uncle sam — a personification of the government or people of the U.S.: represented as a tall, lean man with white chin whiskers, wearing a blue tailcoat, red-and-white-striped trousers, and a top hat with a band of stars.
- undecimal — related to the number 11
- unmanacle — to release (a prisoner) from manacles
- unmatched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- vacuumize — to create a vacuum in.
- vasectomy — excision of the vas deferens, or of a portion of it: performed to effect sterility in men.
- vaxectomy — (jargon) /vak-sek't*-mee/ (By analogy with "vasectomy") Removal of a VAX. DEC's Microvaxen, especially, are much slower than newer RISC-based workstations such as the SPARC. Thus, if one knows one has a replacement coming, VAX removal can be cause for celebration.
- voicemail — an electronic system enabling the recording and storage of (usually digitized) voice messages, which can subsequently be retrieved by the intended recipient.
- war crime — Usually, war crimes. crimes committed against an enemy, prisoners of war, or subjects in wartime that violate international agreements or, as in the case of genocide, are offenses against humanity.
- wehrmacht — the German armed forces of the years prior to and during World War II.
- yachtsmen — Irregular plural form of yachtsman.
- zeugmatic — the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.
- zuckerman — Solly (ˈsɒlɪ), Baron. 1904–93, British zoologist, born in South Africa; chief scientific adviser (1964–71) to the British Government. His books include The Social Life of Monkeys (1932) and the autobiography From Apes to Warlords (1978)