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9-letter words containing m, a, s, r

  • steersman — a person who steers a ship; helmsman.
  • stiff arm — to push away (an opponent) with one's arm out straight
  • stiff-arm — straight-arm.
  • 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.
  • stramazon — a downward fencing stroke
  • stratagem — a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy.
  • straw man — a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
  • strawworm — caddisworm.
  • streambed — the channel in which a stream flows or formerly flowed.
  • streaming — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
  • streamlet — a small stream; rivulet.
  • streamway — the bed of a stream.
  • strip map — a map charting only the immediate territory to be traversed, which appears as a long, narrow strip.
  • strongarm — (processor)   A collaborative project between Digital Equipment Corporation and Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. (ARM) announced on 1995-02-06 licensing the ARM RISC architecture to Digital Semiconductor for the development of high-performance, low power microprocessors. The StrongARM family of 32-bit RISC products developed under the agreement are faster versions of the existing ARM processors with a somewhat different instruction set. They are targetted at applications such as next-generation personal digital assistants with improved user interfaces and communications; interactive television and set-top products; video games and multimedia edutainment systems with realistic imaging, motion and sound; and digital imaging, including low cost digital image capture and photo-quality scanning and printing. The StrongARM family has limited software compatibility with the ARM6, ARM7 and ARM8 families due to its separate caches for data and instructions which causes self-modifying code to fail. The SA-110 is the first member of the family.
  • strongman — a person who performs remarkable feats of strength, as in a circus.
  • stud farm — place where horses are bred
  • stud mare — a female horse kept for breeding
  • styrofoam — Styrofoam is a very light, plastic substance, used especially to make containers.
  • sub-frame — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
  • subdermal — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
  • submarine — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
  • submarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • submatrix — a set of certain rows and columns of a given matrix.
  • subnormal — below the normal; less than or inferior to the normal: a subnormal amount of rain.
  • subprimal — (of meat) being a cut of meat larger than a steak, roast, or other single cut but smaller than a side of beef: shipped by the packer to local markets for final cutting to reduce processing costs and to retard spoilage.
  • sudermann — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1857–1928, German dramatist and novelist.
  • sugar gum — a small eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus cladocalyx, having smooth bark and barrel-shaped fruits and grown for timber and ornament. It has sweet-tasting leaves which are often eaten by livestock
  • sugarplum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
  • summarily — in a prompt or direct manner; immediately; straightaway.
  • summarise — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
  • summarist — a person who summarizes
  • summarize — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
  • sumptuary — pertaining to, dealing with, or regulating expense or expenditure.
  • 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
  • superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
  • superfarm — a very large farm, sometimes incorporating or coordinating a number of smaller farms
  • supermale — a person bearing an X and Y chromosome pair in the cell nuclei and normally having a penis, scrotum, and testicles, and developing hair on the face at adolescence; a boy or man.
  • supermart — a large self-service store selling food and household supplies
  • supertram — a tram with greater capacity and speed than conventional trams
  • supremacy — the state of being supreme.
  • surf clam — any of several typically large common clams of the family Mactridae, inhabiting the zone of breaking surf in coastal waters.
  • surmaster — the deputy headmaster of St Paul's School in London
  • sword arm — the arm in which your sword is normally held
  • swordsman — a person who uses or is skilled in the use of a sword.
  • symmetral — relating to symmetry
  • sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
  • synsacrum — a dorsal ridge of bone in the pelvic region of birds, formed by the fusion of certain thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal vertebrae.
  • take arms — go to war
  • tarantism — a mania characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance, especially as prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, popularly attributed to the bite of the tarantula.
  • tasimeter — a device for measuring small temperature changes. It depends on the changes of pressure resulting from expanding or contracting solids
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