9-letter words containing m, i, s, t
- stumbling — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- styliform — having the shape of an ancient style; stylar.
- stylitism — the practice of being a stylite
- 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.
- subatomic — of or relating to a process that occurs within an atom.
- 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.
- sublimity — the state or quality of being sublime.
- submatrix — a set of certain rows and columns of a given matrix.
- submittal — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- 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).
- summarist — a person who summarizes
- summation — the act or process of summing.
- summative — additive.
- summiteer — a participant in a summit meeting.
- summiting — the highest point or part, as of a hill, a line of travel, or any object; top; apex.
- 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.
- switchman — a person who has charge of a switch on a railroad.
- symbionts — an organism living in a state of symbiosis.
- symbiotic — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
- symbolist — a person who uses symbols or symbolism.
- symington — (William) Stuart, 1901–1988, U.S. politician: senator 1952–77.
- symmetric — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
- sympatico — simpatico
- sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
- symptosis — local or general atrophy.
- symptotic — relating to symptosis
- syncytium — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- 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.
- talmudist — a person versed in the Talmud.
- tantalism — a form of punishment similar to or as severe as that suffered by Tantalus
- tarantism — a mania characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance, especially as prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, popularly attributed to the bite of the tarantula.
- tasimeter — a device for measuring small temperature changes. It depends on the changes of pressure resulting from expanding or contracting solids
- tasmanian — an island S of Australia: a state of the commonwealth of Australia. 26,382 sq. mi. (68,330 sq. km). Capital: Hobart.
- taylorism — a modified form of Calvinism that maintains that every person has a free will, and that makes a distinction between depravity, as the tendency to commit sins, and sin, as a voluntary choice of evil actions.
- 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.
- thanatism — the belief that the soul ceases to exist when the body dies