9-letter words containing s, a, m, n
- monobasic — Chemistry. (of an acid) containing one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- monoblast — A cell, normally found in bone marrow, that matures into a monocyte.
- monocarps — Plural form of monocarp.
- monograms — Plural form of monogram.
- monomials — Plural form of monomial.
- monophase — (electricity) Having a single phase of alternating current.
- monorails — Plural form of monorail.
- monospace — Of a typeface, having the same width for each character.
- monsarrat — Nicholas, 1910–79, English novelist in Canada.
- monsoonal — the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
- montespan — Marquise de (Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart) 1641–1707, mistress of Louis XIV of France.
- moonbeams — Plural form of moonbeam.
- moonphase — a phase of the moon
- moonscape — the general appearance of the surface of the moon.
- moonwalks — Plural form of moonwalk.
- moonwards — towards the moon
- moorlands — Plural form of moorland.
- mossplant — another term for moss
- moundsman — pitcher2 (def 2).
- 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.
- mud snake — an iridescent black and red snake, Farancia abacura, of southeastern and south-central U.S., having a sharp, stiff tail tip used in manipulating prey into position for swallowing.
- mulligans — Plural form of mulligan.
- 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.
- 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.
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- muscleman — Informal. a man with a muscular or brawny physique, especially a bodybuilder.
- musicians — Plural form of musician.
- muskogean — a family of American Indian languages of the southeastern U.S., including Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and several less well-known languages.
- musomania — An obsession with music.
- mussulman — a Muslim.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- 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.
- mute swan — a commonly domesticated soundless white swan, Cygnus olor, of Europe and Asia.
- myostatin — (protein) A protein that acts as an inhibitor to the growth of muscle tissue.
- namas kar — a salutation used in India
- namaycush — a lake trout.
- namesakes — Plural form of namesake.
- namespace — (computing) A conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that have the same names.
- nanograms — Plural form of nanogram.
- narcotism — habitual use of narcotics.
- nastygram — (networking) /nas'tee-gram/ 1. A network packet or e-mail message (the latter is also called a letterbomb) that takes advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to do untoward things. 2. Disapproving e-mail, especially from a net.god, pursuant to a violation of netiquette or a complaint about failure to correct some mail- or news-transmission problem. Compare shitogram, mailbomb. 3. A status report from an unhappy, and probably picky, customer. "What did Corporate say in today's nastygram?" 4. [deprecated] An error reply by mail from a daemon; in particular, a bounce message.
- 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.
- nematodes — Plural form of nematode.
- neogamist — A person recently married; newlywed.
- neoplasms — Plural form of neoplasm.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.