9-letter words containing m, i, s, c
- incomings — Plural form of incoming.
- incompass — Archaic form of encompass.
- incoterms — Plural form of incoterm.
- insomniac — a person who suffers from insomnia, the inability, especially when chronic, to obtain sufficient sleep, through difficulty in falling or staying asleep: Her husband, an insomniac, had at last fallen asleep at the computer, head resting on the keyboard.
- intercoms — Plural form of intercom.
- intumesce — to swell up, as with heat; become tumid.
- irenicism — the promotion and support of peace and conciliation
- ischaemia — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- ischaemic — (UK, pathology, cardiology) alternative spelling of ischemic.
- isocheims — Plural form of isocheim.
- isometric — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- isosmotic — isotonic (def 1).
- italicism — Italianism, especially an idiom or a characteristic of the Italian language.
- jacksmith — a smith who makes devices that enable the turning of meat while being roasted
- jockeyism — the skills and practices of jockeys
- laconisms — Plural form of laconism.
- lacrimoso — sad or mournful
- lemniscal — relating to a lemniscate
- lemniscus — a band of fibers, especially of white nerve fibers in the brain.
- lichenism — the symbiotic association between a fungus and alga that forms a lichen
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- limericks — Plural form of limerick.
- limescale — A white, chalky deposit of calcium carbonate found in kettles, washing machines etc., especially in a hard water area.
- localisms — Plural form of localism.
- locksmith — a person who makes or repairs locks and keys.
- lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
- luminesce — to exhibit luminescence.
- machinist — a person who operates machinery, especially a skilled operator of machine tools.
- macintosh — a raincoat made of rubberized cloth.
- mackinaws — Plural form of mackinaw.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- magicians — Plural form of magician.
- magnetics — the science of magnetism.
- mahlstick — a stick with a padded tip used to support an artist's working hand.
- maieutics — the Socratic method of eliciting knowledge by a series of questions and answers
- majestick — Archaic spelling of majestic.
- maledicts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maledict.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- manicheus — Manes.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- marcasite — Also called white iron pyrites. a common mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , chemically similar to pyrite but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
- mariachis — Plural form of mariachi.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- masculism — Support for male domination of women, for patriarchy; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism.
- masculist — Of or relating to masculism.
- mashgiach — mashgiah.
- masochism — Psychiatry. the condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering physical pain or humiliation.
- masochist — Psychiatry. a person who has masochism, the condition in which sexual or other gratification depends on one's suffering physical pain or humiliation.