9-letter words containing s, e, a, m, n
- moneybags — a bag for money.
- monk seal — a small, dark brown, subtropical seal of the genus Monachus: the three species, M. tropicalis of the Caribbean, M. schauinslandi of Hawaiian island regions, and M. monachus of the Mediterranean, are endangered.
- monophase — (electricity) Having a single phase of alternating current.
- monospace — Of a typeface, having the same width for each character.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- muskogean — a family of American Indian languages of the southeastern U.S., including Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and several less well-known languages.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- mute swan — a commonly domesticated soundless white swan, Cygnus olor, of Europe and Asia.
- 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.
- 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.
- new maths — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- new sarum — a city in S England, in SE Wiltshire: nearby Old Sarum was the site of an Early Iron Age hill fort; its cathedral (1220–58) has the highest spire in England. Pop: 43 355 (2001)
- 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.
- newsmaker — a person, thing, or event that is newsworthy: a weekly magazine devoted to stories on newsmakers.
- newswoman — a woman employed to gather news, as for a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television news bureau.
- nicknames — Plural form of nickname.
- nominates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nominate.
- nonmetals — an element not having the character of a metal, as carbon or nitrogen.
- 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)
- numerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of numerate.
- nursemaid — Also called nurserymaid. a woman or girl employed to care for a child or several children, especially in a household.
- oarswomen — Plural form of oarswoman.
- on stream — If something such as a new factory or a new system comes on stream or is brought on stream, it begins to operate or becomes available.
- on-stream — in or into regular operation, especially as part of a system, assembly line, or the like: When the new printing press goes on-stream, we'll be able to print twice as many newspapers a day.
- orangeism — the principles and practices of the Orangemen.
- ornaments — Plural form of ornament.
- oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
- pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- passament — passement.
- passement — a garment trimming of gold, silver, linen, or silk thread.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- pelmanism — a system of training to improve the memory
- pennalism — a system of mild oppression and torment practised upon first-year students of German Protestant universities in the 17th century