9-letter words containing m, l, a
- semimetal — an element with properties both of a metal and of a non-metal; a metalloid
- seminally — pertaining to, containing, or consisting of semen.
- semirural — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- semivocal — of or relating to a semivowel
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce
- serialism — twelve-tone technique.
- sexualism — any discrimination based upon sexual preference
- shah alam — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 3160 sq. mi. (8184 sq. km). Capital: Shah Alam.
- shambling — to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.
- shambolic — very disorganized; messy or confused: I’ve had a shambolic year, the worst ever.
- shameless — lacking any sense of shame: immodest; audacious.
- shlimazel — an inept, bungling person who suffers from unremitting bad luck.
- showmanly — characteristic of a showman
- shulamite — an epithet meaning “princess,” applied to the bride in the Song of Solomon 6:13.
- sialogram — an X-ray of a salivary gland
- sickleman — a person reaping with a sickle
- sicklemia — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
- sigmoidal — shaped like the letter C.
- signalman — a person whose occupation or duty is signaling, as on a railroad or in the army.
- silymarin — an antioxidant flavonoid found in milk thistle
- similarly — having a likeness or resemblance, especially in a general way: two similar houses.
- simmental — one of a large breed of cattle, yellowish-brown to red and white, originally of Switzerland, used for milk and beef and as a draft animal.
- simula 67 — (language) A version of SIMULA I? Simula a.s., Postboks 4403 - Torshov, N-0402 Oslo 4, Norway, versions for almost every computer. E-mail: Henry Islo <[email protected]>.
- simulacra — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- simulated — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- simulcast — a program broadcast simultaneously on radio and television, or on more than one station, or in several languages, etc.
- slam dunk — basketball: score from above rim
- slam-bang — with noisy violence: He drove slam-bang through the garage door.
- slam-dunk — Basketball. to dunk (the ball) with great force.
- slamdance — to hurl oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock concert
- slavicism — Slavism.
- slimeball — thin, glutinous mud.
- slum area — an area of a city filled with slums
- small arm — Usually, small arms. a firearm designed to be held in one or both hands while being fired: in the U.S. the term is applied to weapons of a caliber of up to one inch (2.5 cm).
- small fry — child
- small-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of under $1 billion: considered to have more growth potential and higher investment risk.
- smallness — of limited size; of comparatively restricted dimensions; not big; little: a small box.
- smalltalk — (language) The pioneering object-oriented programming system developed in 1972 by the Software Concepts Group, led by Alan Kay, at Xerox PARC between 1971 and 1983. It includes a language, a programming environment, and an extensive object library. Smalltalk took the concepts of class and message from Simula-67 and made them all-pervasive. Innovations included the bitmap display, windowing system, and use of a mouse. The syntax is very simple. The fundamental construction is to send a message to an object: object message or with extra parameters object message: param1 secondArg: param2 .. nthArg: paramN where "secondArg:" etc. are considered to be part of the message name. Five pseudo-variables are defined: "self", "super", "nil", "true", "false". "self" is the receiver of the current message. "super" is used to delegate processing of a message to the superclass of the receiver. "nil" is a reference to "nothing" (an instance of UndefinedObject). All variables initially contain a reference to nil. "true" and "false" are Booleans. In Smalltalk, any message can be sent to any object. The recipient object itself decides (based on the message name, also called the "message selector") how to respond to the message. Because of that, the multiple inheritance system included in the early versions of Smalltalk-80 appeared to be unused in practice. All modern implementations have single inheritance, so each class can have at most one superclass. Early implementations were interpreted but all modern ones use dynamic translation (JIT). Early versions were Smalltalk-72, Smalltalk-74, Smalltalk-76 (inheritance taken from Simula, and concurrency), and Smalltalk-78, Smalltalk-80. Other versions include Little Smalltalk, Smalltalk/V, Kamin's interpreters. Current versions are VisualWorks, Squeak, VisualAge, Dolphin Smalltalk, Object Studio, GNU Smalltalk. See also: International Smalltalk Association.
- smellable — to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of: I smell something burning.
- snail cam — a cam with spiral cross section used for progressive lifting of a lever as the cam revolves
- socialism — a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
- soda lime — a mixture of sodium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide.
- soft clam — soft-shell clam.
- soliman i — Suleiman I.
- solyman i — Suleiman I.
- someplace — somewhere.
- soul mate — a person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes, and often a romantic bond: I married my soul mate; you don't get much luckier than that.
- spiralism — an individual's ascent in spiral structure