9-letter words containing s, a, m, i
- misshapen — badly shaped; deformed.
- misshapes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misshape.
- missional — a group or committee of persons sent to a foreign country to conduct negotiations, establish relations, provide scientific and technical assistance, or the like.
- misstated — Simple past tense and past participle of misstate.
- misstates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misstate.
- mist-coat — (in house painting or interior decoration) a coat of thinner, sometimes pigmented, applied to a finish coat of paint to increase its luster.
- mistaking — Present participle of mistake.
- mistarget — To target incorrectly.
- mistaught — to teach wrongly or badly.
- mistreats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mistreat.
- mistrials — Plural form of mistrial.
- misusages — Plural form of misusage.
- misvalued — Simple past tense and past participle of misvalue.
- miter saw — a backsaw used for cutting miters.
- mithraism — an ancient Persian religion in which Mithras was worshiped, involving secret rituals to which only men were admitted: a major competitor of Christianity in the Roman empire during the 2nd and 3rd centuries a.d.
- mitigants — Plural form of mitigant.
- mitigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mitigate.
- mixmaster — a disc jockey
- mizenmast — Alternative spelling of mizzenmast.
- mocassins — Plural form of mocassin.
- moccasins — Plural form of moccasin.
- mocktails — Plural form of mocktail.
- mogadishu — an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Capital: Mogadishu.
- molossian — a breed of dog native to Epirus in NW Greece, used in classical antiquity as a hunting dog and guard dog
- mona lisa — Italian La Gioconda. a portrait (1503?–05?) by Leonardo da Vinci.
- monachism — monasticism.
- monastics — Plural form of monastic.
- monobasic — Chemistry. (of an acid) containing one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- monomials — Plural form of monomial.
- monorails — Plural form of monorail.
- moralised — Simple past tense and past participle of moralise.
- moralisms — Plural form of moralism.
- moralists — Plural form of moralist.
- moralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moralize.
- mortalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of mortalize.
- mosaicism — a condition in which an organism or part is composed of two or more genetically distinct tissues owing to experimental manipulation or to faulty distribution of genetic material during mitosis.
- mosaicist — a person who works in mosaic.
- mosaicked — a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
- motivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of motivate.
- mount isa — a city in NE Australia in NW Queensland: mining of copper and other minerals. Pop: 20 525 (2001)
- mountains — Plural form of mountain.
- mousetail — (botany) Any plant of the genus Ivesia, in the rose family.
- mullahism — governance or rule by mullahs
- mulligans — Plural form of mulligan.
- multicast — Send (data) across a computer network to several users at the same time.
- multiscan — (hardware) A monitor that can synchronise to a variety of horizontal scan rates and refresh rates, allowing it to display images at different resolutions.
- multitask — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- muralists — Plural form of muralist.
- muscadine — a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.