9-letter words containing m, i, a, s
- amerasian — People who have one American parent and one Asian parent are sometimes referred to as Amerasians.
- ameristic — not divided into parts; having no meristem.
- amianthus — any of the fine silky varieties of asbestos
- amidships — Amidships means halfway along the length of a ship.
- amissible — likely to be lost
- ammonites — a nomadic tribe living east of the Jordan: a persistent enemy of the Israelites
- ammonoids — Plural form of ammonoid.
- amnestied — a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
- amnesties — Plural form of amnesty.
- amoralism — the doctrine or attitude that ignores or rejects moral vaues, or deems them to be irrelevant
- amoralist — a person who adheres to the doctrine of amoralism
- amoristic — relating to, or characteristic of, romantic love
- amornings — of a morning
- amorosity — a loving feeling
- amorphism — the state or quality of being amorphous.
- amortised — Finance. to liquidate or extinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), especially by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund. to write off a cost of (an asset) gradually.
- amortizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amortize.
- ampakines — Plural form of ampakine.
- amphioxus — cephalochordate
- amphipods — Plural form of amphipod.
- amplicons — Plural form of amplicon.
- amplifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amplify.
- amsinckia — a genus of flowering herb found in Europe and the Americas
- amusingly — pleasantly entertaining or diverting: an amusing speaker.
- amylopsin — an enzyme of the pancreatic juice that converts starch into sugar; pancreatic amylase
- anabolism — a metabolic process in which complex molecules are synthesized from simpler ones with the storage of energy; constructive metabolism
- analogism — an argument or reason based on analogy
- anamnesis — the ability to recall past events; recollection
- anarchism — Anarchism is the belief that the laws and power of governments should be replaced by people working together freely.
- anatomies — Plural form of anatomy.
- anatomise — to cut apart (an animal or plant) to show or examine the position, structure, and relation of the parts; display the anatomy of; dissect.
- anatomist — An anatomist is an expert in anatomy.
- anglicism — a word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to the English language, esp as spoken in England
- angoumois — a region and former province of W France: famous as source of cognac.
- aniconism — the belief in not using or worshipping images of deities
- animalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of animalize.
- animalism — satisfaction of or preoccupation with physical matters; sensuality
- animalist — a person driven by animal appetites; sensualist.
- animatics — Plural form of animatic.
- animatism — the belief that inanimate objects have consciousness
- animators — Plural form of animator.
- animistic — the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possess souls.
- animosity — Animosity is a strong feeling of dislike and anger. Animosities are feelings of this kind.
- anisogamy — a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar, either in size alone or in size and form
- anomalies — a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form. Synonyms: abnormality, exception, peculiarity.
- anomalism — the state or quality of being anomalous.
- anonymise — (transitive) To render anonymous; especially to remove data that would establish the identity of a person.
- anorchism — Anorchia.
- antiatoms — Plural form of antiatom.
- antimeres — Plural form of antimere.