9-letter words containing m, e, s, n
- plumpness — well filled out or rounded in form; somewhat fleshy or fat.
- poimenics — pastoral theology.
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- presuming — presumptuous.
- pseudonym — a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. Compare allonym (def 1).
- pycnosome — a body type characterized by stockiness
- ranterism — a radical 17th-century Christian doctrine based on a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and disregard of formal worship
- rasmussen — Knud Johan Victor [knooth yoo-hahn veek-tawr] /knuð yʊˈhɑn ˈvik tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1879–1933, Danish arctic explorer.
- reminisce — to recall past experiences, events, etc.; indulge in reminiscence.
- remission — the act of remitting.
- remoisten — to moisten again, to add new moisture to
- responsum — the reply of a noted rabbi or Jewish scholar as rendered in the Responsa.
- romanesco — a variety of green cauliflower
- romanised — to make Roman Catholic.
- roominess — affording ample room; spacious; large.
- rousement — a stirring up of religious excitement
- rudiments — When you learn the rudiments of something, you learn the simplest or most essential things about it.
- rumminess — the state or condition of being rummy
- runesmith — a student, writer, transcriber, or decipherer of runes.
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
- salt mine — a mine from which salt is excavated.
- salvemini — Gaetano [gah-e-tah-naw] /ˌgɑ ɛˈtɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1957, Italian historian in the U.S.
- sameyness — the quality of being monotonous, repetitive, or unvaried
- samuelson — Paul A(nthony) 1915–2009, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1970.
- san mateo — a city in W California.
- sanhedrim — Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.
- sarmentum — a slender running stem; runner.
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- scamander — ancient name of the river Menderes.
- schmeling — Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1905–2005, German boxer: world heavyweight champion 1930–32.
- scientism — the style, assumptions, techniques, practices, etc., typifying or regarded as typifying scientists.
- screaming — uttering screams.
- seemingly — apparent; appearing, whether truly or falsely, to be as specified: a seeming advantage.
- segmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
- segmented — one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section: a segment of an orange.
- selectman — (in most New England states) one of a board of town officers chosen to manage certain public affairs.
- semainier — a chest of the 18th century having seven long drawers: originally meant to hold a week's supply of clothing.
- semanteme — one of the minimum elements of lexical meaning in a language.
- semantics — Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
- semantide — a type of molecule found in all cells, which changes slowly over time
- semantron — a bar struck instead of a bell in an Orthodox church
- semblance — outward aspect or appearance.
- semi-nude — naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
- semiangle — half of a particular angle
- semicolon — the punctuation mark (;) used to indicate a major division in a sentence where a more distinct separation is felt between clauses or items on a list than is indicated by a comma, as between the two clauses of a compound sentence.
- semifinal — of or relating to the round preceding the final one in a tournament from which losers are eliminated.
- semilunar — shaped like a half-moon; crescent.
- seminaked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.