9-letter words containing s, e, m, i, a, l
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- 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
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- ramillies — a village in central Belgium: Marlborough's defeat of the French 1706.
- sailmaker — a person who makes or repairs sails.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- salimeter — salinometer.
- 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.
- semiangle — half of a particular angle
- semifinal — of or relating to the round preceding the final one in a tournament from which losers are eliminated.
- semilunar — shaped like a half-moon; crescent.
- semimetal — an element with properties both of a metal and of a non-metal; a metalloid
- seminally — pertaining to, containing, or consisting of semen.
- semirural — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- semivocal — of or relating to a semivowel
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce
- serialism — twelve-tone technique.
- sexualism — any discrimination based upon sexual preference
- shlimazel — an inept, bungling person who suffers from unremitting bad luck.
- shulamite — an epithet meaning “princess,” applied to the bride in the Song of Solomon 6:13.
- 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.
- simmental — one of a large breed of cattle, yellowish-brown to red and white, originally of Switzerland, used for milk and beef and as a draft animal.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- simulated — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- slimeball — thin, glutinous mud.
- soda lime — a mixture of sodium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide.
- stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- 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.
- timescale — The timescale of an event is the length of time during which it happens or develops.
- tramlines — streetcar track
- unrealism — abstractionism or a representation lacking a direct relation to a tangible or concrete object
- verbalism — a verbal expression, as a word or phrase.
- vigesimal — of, relating to, or based on twenty.
- welfarism — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.