9-letter words containing m, i, s, e, l
- musteline — belonging or pertaining to the family Mustelidae, including the martens, skunks, minks, weasels, badgers, and otters.
- mutilates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mutilate.
- mutualise — Alternative spelling of mutualize.
- mysterial — (obsolete) mysterious.
- neologism — a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- news film — a film showing main events in the news
- normalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of normalize.
- oligomers — Plural form of oligomer.
- omissible — capable of being or allowed to be omitted.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- pelmanism — a system of training to improve the memory
- pennalism — a system of mild oppression and torment practised upon first-year students of German Protestant universities in the 17th century
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
- polysemic — capable of having several possible meanings
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- ptolemies — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
- puerilism — childishness in the behavior of an adult.
- ramillies — a village in central Belgium: Marlborough's defeat of the French 1706.
- sailmaker — a person who makes or repairs sails.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- salimeter — salinometer.
- 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.
- schlemiel — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
- schlemihl — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
- schmeling — Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1905–2005, German boxer: world heavyweight champion 1930–32.
- seemingly — apparent; appearing, whether truly or falsely, to be as specified: a seeming advantage.
- seemlihed — seemliness
- 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.
- semifluid — imperfectly fluid; having both fluid and solid characteristics; semiliquid.
- semiglobe — a half globe; a hemisphere
- semigloss — (of paint or a painted surface) having a moderate, satiny luster; having or producing a sheen that is neither flat nor highly glossy.
- semilunar — shaped like a half-moon; crescent.
- semimetal — an element with properties both of a metal and of a non-metal; a metalloid
- seminally — pertaining to, containing, or consisting of semen.
- seminoles — a member of any of several groupings of North American Indians comprising emigrants from the Creek Confederacy territories to Florida or their descendants in Florida and Oklahoma, especially the culturally conservative present-day Florida Indians.
- semiology — the study of signs and symbols; semiotics.
- semiplume — a semiplume feather
- semirural — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- semisolid — having a somewhat firm consistency; more or less solid.
- semisolus — an advertisement that appears on the same page as another advertisement but not adjacent to it
- semivocal — of or relating to a semivowel
- semivowel — Phonetics. a speech sound of vowel quality used as a consonant, as (w) in wet or (y) in yet.
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce
- sensillum — Zoology. a simple sense organ usually consisting of one or a few cells at the peripheral end of a sensory nerve fiber.
- septimole — a group of seven musical notes to be played in the same space of time as either four or six