9-letter words containing s, e, p, t, m
- impetuses — Plural form of impetus.
- impieties — Plural form of impiety.
- impiteous — (obsolete) pitiless; cruel.
- importers — Plural form of importer.
- imposters — Plural form of imposter.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- impsonite — a black variety of asphaltite with a jagged fracture.
- jump seat — a movable or folding seat, as in a carriage, taxicab, or limousine, used as an extra seat.
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- leg stump — either of the outside stumps at which the batsman takes his position.
- leptosome — a person of asthenic build.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- meatspace — The physical world, as opposed to cyberspace or a virtual environment.
- mephitism — poisonous air or a foul smell
- mesophyte — a plant growing under conditions of well-balanced moisture supply.
- metaphase — the stage in mitosis or meiosis in which the duplicated chromosomes line up along the equatorial plate of the spindle.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metaplasm — Cell Biology. the nonliving matter or inclusions, as starch or pigments, within a cell.
- metascope — a device for converting infrared radiation into visible light.
- mileposts — Plural form of milepost.
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- mistemper — to disorder or disturb
- monotypes — Plural form of monotype.
- montespan — Marquise de (Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart) 1641–1707, mistress of Louis XIV of France.
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- multiples — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
- multistep — Involving multiple steps.
- mutoscope — A motion-picture device of the late nineteenth century, to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole.
- optimised — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
- optimises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimise.
- optimizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimize.
- pa system — a combination of electronic devices that makes sound audible via loudspeakers to many people, as in an auditorium or out of doors.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- 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.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- peat moss — Also called bog moss. any moss, especially of the genus Sphagnum, from which peat may form.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- penstemon — any of numerous chiefly North American plants belonging to the genus Penstemon, of the figwort family, some species of which are cultivated for their showy, variously colored flowers.
- peristome — Botany. the one or two circles of small, pointed, toothlike appendages around the orifice of a capsule or urn of mosses, appearing when the lid is removed.
- pessimist — a person who habitually sees or anticipates the worst or is disposed to be gloomy.
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- petrinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by, or attributed to, the apostle Peter.
- phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
- poeticism — a poetic expression that has become hackneyed, forced, or artificial.
- pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.