9-letter words containing m, i, s, t, r
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- peristome — Botany. the one or two circles of small, pointed, toothlike appendages around the orifice of a capsule or urn of mosses, appearing when the lid is removed.
- petrinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by, or attributed to, the apostle Peter.
- pogromist — a person who participates in a pogrom
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- presummit — of the period prior to a summit
- prettyism — an affectedly pretty style
- prismatic — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- privatism — concern with or pursuit of one's personal or family interests, welfare, or ideals to the exclusion of broader social issues or relationships.
- rainstorm — a storm with heavy rain.
- ranterism — a radical 17th-century Christian doctrine based on a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and disregard of formal worship
- redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- reformist — a person who advocates or practices reform; reformer.
- remoisten — to moisten again, to add new moisture to
- restiform — (esp of bundles of nerve fibres) shaped like a cord or rope; cordlike
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- rhythmics — rhythmics.
- rhythmist — a person versed in or having a fine sense of rhythm.
- rightmost — farthest to the right side
- ritualism — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- routinism — adherence to routine.
- rudiments — When you learn the rudiments of something, you learn the simplest or most essential things about it.
- runesmith — a student, writer, transcriber, or decipherer of runes.
- rust mite — any of various mites that cause brown or reddish patches on leaves and fruit.
- rusticism — a rustic expression
- salimeter — salinometer.
- samaritan — an inhabitant of Samaria.
- sarmatian — the ancient name of a region in E Europe, between the Vistula and the Volga.
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- saturnism — lead poisoning (def 1b).
- sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
- scutiform — being in the shape of a shield; shield-shaped.
- semierect — partly erect
- semitruck — tractor-trailer.
- septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- septemvir — a member of a seven-man ruling body in ancient Rome.
- septiform — sevenfold
- side trim — a decorative feature on the side of a car
- sigmatron — a machine for generating X-rays
- simscript — A free-form, English-like general-purpose simulation language produced by Harry Markowitz et al of Rand Corp in 1963. It was implemented as a Fortran preprocessor on IBM 7090 and was designed for large discrete simulations. It influenced Simula. Later versions included SIMSCRIPT I.5 and SIMSCRIPT II.5.
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- slit-drum — a hollowed-out log with a long, narrow slit, beaten with a stick or stamped upon to produce a drumming sound, found in many cultures since ancient times.
- 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.
- spiritism — the doctrine or practices of spiritualism.