9-letter words containing s, a, m, n
- pleaseman — a person who courts favour
- pointsman — a railway switchman.
- postwoman — female postal worker
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- prosimian — belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Compare anthropoid.
- rabbinism — the beliefs, practices, and precepts of the rabbis of the Talmudic period.
- rainstorm — a storm with heavy rain.
- ram singh — 1816–85, Indian leader of a puritanical Sikh sect, the Kukas, who tried to remove the British from India through a policy of noncooperation
- ramblings — If you describe a speech or piece of writing as someone's ramblings, you are saying that it is meaningless because the person who said or wrote it was very confused or insane.
- ranterism — a radical 17th-century Christian doctrine based on a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and disregard of formal worship
- rasmussen — Knud Johan Victor [knooth yoo-hahn veek-tawr] /knuð yʊˈhɑn ˈvik tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1879–1933, Danish arctic explorer.
- romanesco — a variety of green cauliflower
- romanised — to make Roman Catholic.
- roundsman — a person who makes rounds, as of inspection.
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
- sakyamuni — one of the names of Buddha.
- salamanca — a city in W Spain: university; Wellington's defeat of the French, 1812.
- salaryman — (in Japan) a white-collar businessman.
- salmonoid — resembling a salmon.
- salt mine — a mine from which salt is excavated.
- salvemini — Gaetano [gah-e-tah-naw] /ˌgɑ ɛˈtɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1957, Italian historian in the U.S.
- samarinda — a city on E Borneo, in Indonesia.
- samaritan — an inhabitant of Samaria.
- samarkand — a province of the ancient Persian Empire between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers: now in Uzbekistan. Capital: Samarkand.
- sameyness — the quality of being monotonous, repetitive, or unvaried
- samuelson — Paul A(nthony) 1915–2009, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1970.
- san dimas — a city in SW California.
- san mateo — a city in W California.
- san ramon — a town in W California.
- sandstorm — a windstorm, especially in a desert, that blows along great clouds of sand (distinguished from dust storm).
- sanhedrim — Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.
- sarmatian — the ancient name of a region in E Europe, between the Vistula and the Volga.
- sarmentum — a slender running stem; runner.
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- saturnism — lead poisoning (def 1b).
- scamander — ancient name of the river Menderes.
- schoolman — a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.
- sciomancy — divination with the help of ghosts
- scotchman — Sometimes Offensive. Scotsman.
- scramming — to go away; get out (usually used as a command): I said I was busy, so scram.
- screaming — uttering screams.
- segmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
- selectman — (in most New England states) one of a board of town officers chosen to manage certain public affairs.
- semainier — a chest of the 18th century having seven long drawers: originally meant to hold a week's supply of clothing.
- semanteme — one of the minimum elements of lexical meaning in a language.
- semantics — Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
- semantide — a type of molecule found in all cells, which changes slowly over time
- semantron — a bar struck instead of a bell in an Orthodox church
- semblance — outward aspect or appearance.