9-letter words containing m, u, s, i
- quilombos — Plural form of quilombo.
- quixotism — (sometimes initial capital letter) quixotic character or practice.
- 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.
- reimburse — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- ritualism — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- routinism — adherence to routine.
- rudiments — When you learn the rudiments of something, you learn the simplest or most essential things about it.
- rumminess — the state or condition of being rummy
- runesmith — a student, writer, transcriber, or decipherer of runes.
- rust mite — any of various mites that cause brown or reddish patches on leaves and fruit.
- rusticism — a rustic expression
- sacrarium — Roman Catholic Church. a piscina.
- sakyamuni — one of the names of Buddha.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- saturnism — lead poisoning (def 1b).
- 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.
- semi-nude — naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
- semicured — partly cured or preserved
- semifluid — imperfectly fluid; having both fluid and solid characteristics; semiliquid.
- semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
- semilunar — shaped like a half-moon; crescent.
- semipious — quite pious; somewhat pious
- semipious — quite pious; somewhat pious
- semiplume — a semiplume feather
- semiround — having one surface that is round and another that is flat.
- semirural — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- semisolus — an advertisement that appears on the same page as another advertisement but not adjacent to it
- semitruck — tractor-trailer.
- semiurban — of, relating to, or designating a city or town.
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce
- sensillum — Zoology. a simple sense organ usually consisting of one or a few cells at the peripheral end of a sensory nerve fiber.
- sensorium — a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
- septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- sexualism — any discrimination based upon sexual preference
- shulamite — an epithet meaning “princess,” applied to the bride in the Song of Solomon 6:13.
- siddhuism — any contrived metaphor or simile
- side drum — snare drum.
- sigismund — 1368–1437, Holy Roman emperor 1411–37.
- simarouba — any tropical American tree belonging to the genus Simaruba, of the quassia family, having pinnate leaves, a fleshy fruit, and a root whose bark contains an appetite stimulant.
- 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.
- slit-drum — a hollowed-out log with a long, narrow slit, beaten with a stick or stamped upon to produce a drumming sound, found in many cultures since ancient times.
- smuggling — to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.
- sour milk — milk that has spoiled