9-letter words containing m, u, s, i, c
- osmoticum — (biology) Any substance that acts to supplement osmotic pressure in a plant or a culture of plant cells.
- ossiculum — (anatomy) An ossicle.
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- pop music — popular music
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- pumiceous — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- rusticism — a rustic expression
- sacrarium — Roman Catholic Church. a piscina.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- scamillus — a slight bevel at an arris of a stone, as in the necking of a Greek Doric column.
- scummiest — consisting of or having scum.
- scutiform — being in the shape of a shield; shield-shaped.
- semicured — partly cured or preserved
- semitruck — tractor-trailer.
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce
- simulacra — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- simulcast — a program broadcast simultaneously on radio and television, or on more than one station, or in several languages, etc.
- subatomic — of or relating to a process that occurs within an atom.
- 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.
- submicron — (of particles) being less than a micron in overall dimensions.
- syncytium — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- time suck — something that takes up too much of one's time: Social media is addictive and a huge time suck when I should be studying.
- umbilicus — Anatomy. the depression in the center of the surface of the abdomen indicating the point of attachment of the umbilical cord to the embryo; navel.
- unmusical — not musical; deficient in melody, harmony, rhythm, or tone.
- vulcanism — volcanism.