9-letter words containing m, i, s, e, t
- slip stem — a spoon handle cut obliquely at the end from top to bottom.
- slow time — standard time.
- smectitic — of, relating to, or designating smectite
- smethwick — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- solemnity — the state or character of being solemn; earnestness; gravity; impressiveness: the solemnity of a state funeral.
- something — Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
- sometimes — on some occasions; at times; now and then.
- sovietism — (sometimes lowercase) a soviet system of government.
- spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
- spermatia — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
- staminate — having a stamen or stamens.
- staminode — a sterile or abortive stamen.
- steadicam — a mechanism for steadying a handheld camera, consisting of a shock-absorbing arm to which the camera is attached and a harness worn by the camera operator
- steampipe — a pipe for conveying steam from a boiler.
- steamship — a large commercial vessel, especially one driven by steam.
- steinmetz — Charles Proteus [proh-tee-uh s] /ˈproʊ ti əs/ (Show IPA), 1865–1923, U.S. electrical engineer, born in Germany.
- stemmatic — of or relating to a textual stemma
- stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stop time — a passage where the beat stops temporarily
- streaming — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- stymieing — Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
- sublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- submitter — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- summative — additive.
- summiteer — a participant in a summit meeting.
- swimmeret — (in many crustaceans) one of a number of abdominal limbs or appendages, usually adapted for swimming and for carrying eggs, as distinguished from other limbs adapted for walking or seizing.
- symmetric — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- systemise — systematize.
- systemize — systematize.
- tagmemics — a school of linguistics deriving from American structuralism based on the work of Kenneth Lee Pike and using the tagmeme as the basic unit of grammatical analysis.
- tasimeter — a device for measuring small temperature changes. It depends on the changes of pressure resulting from expanding or contracting solids
- tectonism — diastrophism (def 1).
- teleseism — a tremor caused by an earthquake originating a great distance from the seismographic station that records it.
- temporise — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
- temps lie — a series of systematized and connected arm and leg movements done for practice.
- tenebrism — a school, style, or method of painting, adopted chiefly by 17th-century Spanish and Neapolitan painters, esp Caravaggio, characterized by large areas of dark colours, usually relieved with a shaft of light
- terminism — philosophical nominalism
- terminist — someone who accepts the doctrine of terminism
- terrorism — the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
- test film — a short film that serves as an example of a longer work
- testimony — Law. the statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, usually in court.
- teutonism — the character, spirit, or culture of the Teutons, especially the Germans.
- the amish — the Amish people
- the mains — the main distribution network for water, gas, or electricity
- the-miser — a comedy (1668) by Molière.
- thotmes i — Thutmose I.
- time fuse — a fuse designed to burn for a given time, esp to explode a bomb