9-letter words containing s, a, m, i
- skim-read — to read quickly and superficially, in order to pick up the important or significant details
- skimboard — a type of short, rounded surfboard used for riding in shallow water.
- skin game — a dishonest or unscrupulous business operation, scheme, etc.
- slavicism — Slavism.
- slimeball — thin, glutinous mud.
- smash hit — a person or thing that is overwhelmingly successful or popular: Both the play and the movie based on it were smash hits.
- smiercase — any soft cheese suitable for spreading or eating with a spoon, especially a sour cottage cheese.
- snail cam — a cam with spiral cross section used for progressive lifting of a lever as the cam revolves
- snap brim — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
- socialism — a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
- sociogram — a sociometric diagram representing the pattern of relationships between individuals in a group, usually expressed in terms of which persons they prefer to associate with.
- soda lime — a mixture of sodium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide.
- soliman i — Suleiman I.
- solyman i — Suleiman I.
- spanaemia — a lack of red corpuscles in blood
- spanaemic — relating to a lack of red corpuscles in blood
- spasmatic — given to spasms
- spasmodic — pertaining to or of the nature of a spasm; characterized by spasms.
- spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
- spermaria — spermaries
- spermatia — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
- spiderman — a person who erects the steel structure of a building
- spiralism — an individual's ascent in spiral structure
- spirogram — a record made by a spirograph
- spoilsman — a person who seeks or receives a share in political spoils.
- squeamish — fastidious or dainty.
- stalinism — the principles of communism associated with Joseph Stalin, characterized especially by the extreme suppression of dissident political or ideological views, the concentration of power in one person, and an aggressive international policy.
- staminate — having a stamen or stamens.
- staminode — a sterile or abortive stamen.
- staminody — the metamorphosis of any of various flower organs, as a sepal or a petal, into a stamen.
- staminoid — like a stamen
- steadicam — a mechanism for steadying a handheld camera, consisting of a shock-absorbing arm to which the camera is attached and a harness worn by the camera operator
- steampipe — a pipe for conveying steam from a boiler.
- steamship — a large commercial vessel, especially one driven by steam.
- stemmatic — of or relating to a textual stemma
- stiff arm — to push away (an opponent) with one's arm out straight
- stiff-arm — straight-arm.
- stigmatic — Also, stigmatical. pertaining to a stigma, mark, spot, or the like.
- stimulant — Physiology, Medicine/Medical. something that temporarily quickens some vital process or the functional activity of some organ or part: Adrenalin is a stimulant for the heart. Compare depressant (def 4).
- stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stomachic — of or relating to the stomach; gastric.
- streaming — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- strip map — a map charting only the immediate territory to be traversed, which appears as a long, narrow strip.
- 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.
- subfamily — Biology. a category of related genera within a family.
- sublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- submarine — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.