9-letter words containing m, i, s, t
- simulcast — a program broadcast simultaneously on radio and television, or on more than one station, or in several languages, etc.
- sitomania — abnormal craving for food.
- sixteenmo — Also called sextodecimo. a book size (about 4×6 in.; 10×15 cm) determined by printing on sheets folded to form 16 leaves or 32 pages.
- sixth man — a team's best substitute.
- slip stem — a spoon handle cut obliquely at the end from top to bottom.
- 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.
- slow time — standard time.
- smash hit — a person or thing that is overwhelmingly successful or popular: Both the play and the movie based on it were smash hits.
- smectitic — of, relating to, or designating smectite
- smethwick — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- smithtown — a city on N Long Island, in SE New York.
- smoothish — somewhat or fairly smooth
- sodomitic — anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex.
- 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.
- songsmith — a writer of songs.
- sovietism — (sometimes lowercase) a soviet system of government.
- spasmatic — given to spasms
- 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.
- splittism — the advocating of separation from a larger body
- stalinism — the principles of communism associated with Joseph Stalin, characterized especially by the extreme suppression of dissident political or ideological views, the concentration of power in one person, and an aggressive international policy.
- staminate — having a stamen or stamens.
- staminode — a sterile or abortive stamen.
- staminody — the metamorphosis of any of various flower organs, as a sepal or a petal, into a stamen.
- staminoid — like a 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
- stiff arm — to push away (an opponent) with one's arm out straight
- stiff-arm — straight-arm.
- stigmatic — Also, stigmatical. pertaining to a stigma, mark, spot, or the like.
- stillroom — (in a large house) a room for distilling or for the preparation of special foods and drinks.
- stimulant — Physiology, Medicine/Medical. something that temporarily quickens some vital process or the functional activity of some organ or part: Adrenalin is a stimulant for the heart. Compare depressant (def 4).
- stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stomachic — of or relating to the stomach; gastric.
- stop time — a passage where the beat stops temporarily
- storm pit — a storm cellar.
- stormbird — any bird of several species of black, white, or grey seabirds belonging to the order Procellariiformes
- streaming — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- strip map — a map charting only the immediate territory to be traversed, which appears as a long, narrow strip.
- stromboli — an island off the NE coast of Sicily, in the Lipari group.
- strontium — a bivalent, metallic element whose compounds resemble those of calcium, found in nature only in the combined state, as in strontianite: used in fireworks, flares, and tracer bullets. Symbol: Sr; atomic weight: 87.62; atomic number: 38; specific gravity: 2.6.
- strumitis — an inflammation of thyroid gland