9-letter words containing m, o, s, a, i
- aromatics — Plural form of aromatic.
- aromatise — Alternative spelling of aromatize.
- asbomania — the perceived indiscriminate and excessive use by the authorities of anti-social behaviour orders in dealing with people causing a nuisance to their fellow citizens
- asimovian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of Isaac Asimov
- atmolysis — a method of separating gases that depends on their differential rates of diffusion through a porous substance
- atomistic — of atoms or atomism
- atomizers — Plural form of atomizer.
- atonalism — atonality.
- authorism — the state or condition of being author
- autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- averroism — the teachings of Averroës
- balsamico — Balsamic vinegar.
- biomasses — Ecology. the amount of living matter in a given habitat, expressed either as the weight of organisms per unit area or as the volume of organisms per unit volume of habitat.
- bombasine — bombazine.
- bombastic — If you describe someone as bombastic, you are criticizing them for trying to impress other people by saying things that sound impressive but have little meaning.
- camisoles — Plural form of camisole.
- campesino — a Latin American rural peasant
- castroism — the philosophy and policies of Fidel Castro and his followers
- chamosite — a mineral of the chlorite group, hydrous aluminum silicate of iron, occurring in gray or black crystals in oolitic iron ore.
- champions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of champion.
- chisimaio — a port in S Somalia, on the Indian Ocean. Pop: reliable recent estimates are not available
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- cimbaloms — Plural form of cimbalom.
- cinnamons — Plural form of cinnamon.
- cis woman — an adult who was born female and whose gender identity is female.
- coalmines — Plural form of coalmine.
- cocainism — addiction to cocaine
- comedians — Plural form of comedian.
- comitatus — a retinue of warriors serving a leader, esp in pre-Christian Germanic cultures, such as Anglo-Saxon England and Viking Age Scandinavia
- commatism — Conciseness in writing.
- commissar — an official of the Communist Party responsible for political education, esp in a military unit
- companies — Plural form of company.
- complains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complain.
- comprisal — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- coseismal — of or designating points at which earthquake waves are felt at the same time
- crocosmia — any plant of the cormous S. African genus Crocosmia, including the plant known to gardeners as montbretia: family Iridaceae
- crotalism — a type of poisoning caused by ingestion of plants of the genus Crotalaria
- d'amboise — Jacques [French zhahk] /French ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), (Joseph) born 1934, U.S. ballet dancer and choreographer.
- daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.
- diabolism — activities designed to enlist the aid of devils, esp in witchcraft or sorcery
- dialogism — a deduction with one premise and a disjunctive conclusion
- diatomist — a person specializing in the study of diatoms
- diplomats — Plural form of diplomat.
- disenamor — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- dogmatics — the study of the arrangement and statement of religious doctrines, especially of the doctrines received in and taught by the Christian church.
- dogmatise — to make dogmatic assertions; speak or write dogmatically.
- dogmatism — dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
- dogmatist — a person who asserts his or her opinions in an unduly positive or arrogant manner; a dogmatic person.
- domainist — (jargon) /doh-mayn'ist/ 1. Said of a domain address (as opposed to a bang path) because the part to the right of the "@" specifies a nested series of "domains"; for example, [email protected] specifies the machine called snark in the subdomain called thyrsus within the top-level domain called com. See also big-endian. 2. Said of a site, mailer or routing program which knows how to handle domainist addresses. 3. Said of a person (especially a site admin) who prefers domain addressing, supports a domainist mailer, or proselytises for domainist addressing and disdains bang paths. This term is now (1993) semi-obsolete, as most sites have converted.