9-letter words containing m, l, a
- spoilsman — a person who seeks or receives a share in political spoils.
- squamella — a small scale or bract in a plant
- squamosal — Anatomy. of or relating to the thin, scalelike portion of the temporal bone that is situated on the side of the skull above and behind the ear.
- stableman — a person who works in a stable.
- stalemate — Chess. a position of the pieces in which a player cannot move any piece except the king and cannot move the king without putting it in check.
- 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.
- stampless — without a stamp
- steamless — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- 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.
- stomachal — a medication that is good for the stomach
- streamlet — a small stream; rivulet.
- subclimax — the development of an ecological community to a stage short of the expected climax because of some factor, as repeated fires in a forest, that arrests the normal succession.
- subdermal — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subfamily — Biology. a category of related genera within a family.
- 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.
- submental — situated beneath the chin
- submittal — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- subnormal — below the normal; less than or inferior to the normal: a subnormal amount of rain.
- subprimal — (of meat) being a cut of meat larger than a steak, roast, or other single cut but smaller than a side of beef: shipped by the packer to local markets for final cutting to reduce processing costs and to retard spoilage.
- subsample — a specimen from or a small part of a sample.
- sudaminal — pertaining to a sudamen or sudamina; comprising sudamina
- sugarplum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
- sum total — complete numerical total: the sum total of my savings.
- summarily — in a prompt or direct manner; immediately; straightaway.
- supermale — a person bearing an X and Y chromosome pair in the cell nuclei and normally having a penis, scrotum, and testicles, and developing hair on the face at adolescence; a boy or man.
- surf clam — any of several typically large common clams of the family Mactridae, inhabiting the zone of breaking surf in coastal waters.
- swampland — land or an area covered with swamps.
- sweetmeal — (of biscuits) sweet and wholemeal
- syllabism — the use of syllabic characters, as in writing.
- symbolang — Lapidus & Goldstein, 1965. Symbol manipulating Fortran subroutine package for IBM 7094, later CDC 6600.
- symmetral — relating to symmetry
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- syphiloma — a tumour or gumma caused by infection with syphilis
- tablemate — someone with whom one shares a dining table
- taj mahal — a white marble mausoleum built at Agra, India, by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (fl. 1628–58) for his favorite wife.
- talk time — a prepaid amount of minutes or hours on a mobile phone bill agreement, etc
- tallmadge — a city in NE Ohio.
- talmudist — a person versed in the Talmud.
- tamarillo — the edible, plumlike fruit of a tree, Cyphomandra betacea, of the nightshade family, native to the Peruvian Andes.
- tamerlane — (Timur Lenk) 1336?–1405, Tartar conqueror in southern and western Asia: ruler of Samarkand 1369–1405.
- tantalism — a form of punishment similar to or as severe as that suffered by Tantalus
- 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.
- tchambuli — a member of an indigenous people of Papua New Guinea.
- team foul — one of a number of personal fouls committed within a specified period that do not exceed the allowable limit after which the opposing team begins to receive bonus free throws.
- tegmental — of or relating to the tegmentum
- teledrama — a drama written especially for broadcast on television.
- teleplasm — a hypothetical emanation from the body of a medium that serves as the means for telekinesis.
- tenaculum — Surgery. a small sharp-pointed hook set in a handle, used for seizing and picking up parts in operations and dissections.
- thalamium — thalamus (def 3).