9-letter words containing s, c, i, a, m
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- sacciform — resembling a sac
- sack time — time spent sleeping.
- sacrarium — Roman Catholic Church. a piscina.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- samoyedic — of or relating to the Samoyed people or languages.
- scamillus — a slight bevel at an arris of a stone, as in the necking of a Greek Doric column.
- schematic — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
- schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
- sciamachy — an act or instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy.
- sciomachy — sciamachy.
- sciomancy — divination with the help of ghosts
- scramming — to go away; get out (usually used as a command): I said I was busy, so scram.
- screaming — uttering screams.
- scrimmage — a rough or vigorous struggle.
- scrimshaw — a carved or engraved article, especially of whale ivory, whalebone, walrus tusks, or the like, made by whalers as a leisure occupation.
- semantics — Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
- semi-coma — a light coma from which a person can be roused.
- semivocal — of or relating to a semivowel
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce
- shambolic — very disorganized; messy or confused: I’ve had a shambolic year, the worst ever.
- sickleman — a person reaping with a sickle
- sicklemia — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
- simpatico — congenial or like-minded; likable: I find our new neighbor simpatico in every respect.
- simulacra — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- simulcast — a program broadcast simultaneously on radio and television, or on more than one station, or in several languages, etc.
- slavicism — Slavism.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- 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
- stemmatic — of or relating to a textual stemma
- stigmatic — Also, stigmatical. pertaining to a stigma, mark, spot, or the like.
- stomachic — of or relating to the stomach; gastric.
- 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.
- switchman — a person who has charge of a switch on a railroad.
- sympatico — simpatico
- sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
- symposiac — of, relating to, or suitable for a symposium.
- tagmemics — a school of linguistics deriving from American structuralism based on the work of Kenneth Lee Pike and using the tagmeme as the basic unit of grammatical analysis.
- timescale — The timescale of an event is the length of time during which it happens or develops.
- unmusical — not musical; deficient in melody, harmony, rhythm, or tone.
- volcanism — the phenomena connected with volcanoes and volcanic activity.