9-letter words containing s, a, m, i
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- mushairas — Plural form of mushaira.
- musicales — Plural form of musicale.
- musically — of, relating to, or producing music: a musical instrument.
- musicians — Plural form of musician.
- musomania — An obsession with music.
- mussitate — to mutter; mumble.
- mustachio — a mustache.
- mutations — Biology. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.
- mutilates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mutilate.
- mutualise — Alternative spelling of mutualize.
- mutualism — a relationship between two species of organisms in which both benefit from the association.
- mutualist — a relationship between two species of organisms in which both benefit from the association.
- mydriasis — excessive dilatation of the pupil of the eye, as the result of disease, drugs, or the like.
- myostatin — (protein) A protein that acts as an inhibitor to the growth of muscle tissue.
- myriapods — Plural form of myriapod.
- myristate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of myristic acid.
- myristica — (botany) Any member of the genus Myristica of nutmegs.
- mysterial — (obsolete) mysterious.
- narcotism — habitual use of narcotics.
- nationism — (sociolinguistics) The practical concerns of running a nation, especially seen as divorced from emotional beliefs about national identity.
- near miss — a strike by a missile that is not a direct hit but is close enough to damage the target.
- neogamist — A person recently married; newlywed.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- newmanism — the views and theories of John Henry Newman before his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church, in which he held that the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England are compatible with Roman Catholicism.
- nicknames — Plural form of nickname.
- no claims — A no claims discount or bonus is a reduction in the money that you have to pay for an insurance policy, which you get when you have not made any claims in the previous year.
- nominates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nominate.
- normalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of normalize.
- novaesium — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia west of Düsseldorf: founded as a Roman fortress in the 1st century ad. Pop: 152 050 (2003 est)
- nursemaid — Also called nurserymaid. a woman or girl employed to care for a child or several children, especially in a household.
- nystagmic — Exhibiting or pertaining to nystagmus (involuntary eye movement).
- olympiads — Plural form of olympiad.
- onomastic — of or relating to proper names.
- opsomania — an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food
- orangeism — the principles and practices of the Orangemen.
- organisms — Plural form of organism.
- orgasming — the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation.
- origamist — A person who does origami.
- osmeteria — glands in some caterpillars that secrete foul-smelling substances to deter predators
- osmically — with regard to smell
- ossuarium — ossuary.
- ostracism — exclusion, by general consent, from social acceptance, privileges, friendship, etc.
- ozostomia — bad breath; halitosis.
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- pancosmic — of every cosmos
- panderism — the work of a pander