9-letter words containing s, h, a, m
- mustachio — a mustache.
- myographs — Plural form of myograph.
- namaycush — a lake trout.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- 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.
- ohm's law — the law that for any circuit the electric current is directly proportional to the voltage and is inversely proportional to the resistance.
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp 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.
- pariahism — an outcast.
- peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
- phantasma — phantasm (defs 1, 2).
- phenakism — a form of deceit or craftiness
- photomask — an opaque image on a transparent plate that is used to filter light so the image can be transferred, used in photolithography applications
- phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
- promachos — a defender or champion
- quamashes — Plural form of quamash.
- rakeshame — a shamefully dissolute person; rogue
- 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
- ramaphosa — (Matamela) Cyril. born 1952, South African statesman and trade unionist; secretary general of the ANC (1991–97); deputy president of South Africa from 2014
- rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- s & h — shipping and handling
- saccharum — a brewing sugar derived from cane sugar
- sachemdom — the office of a sachem
- sakishima — a group of islands in the S Ryukyu Islands, off Taiwan and belonging to Japan.
- 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.
- 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.
- schmaltzy — of, relating to, or characterized by schmaltz.
- schoolman — a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.
- sciamachy — an act or instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy.
- sciomachy — sciamachy.
- scotchman — Sometimes Offensive. Scotsman.
- scrimshaw — a carved or engraved article, especially of whale ivory, whalebone, walrus tusks, or the like, made by whalers as a leisure occupation.
- search me — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- self-harm — injury inflicted deliberately on yourself
- semaphore — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semihardy — partially hardy; able to survive moderately low temperatures: semihardy plants.
- shah alam — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 3160 sq. mi. (8184 sq. km). Capital: Shah Alam.
- shaikhism — the beliefs and practices of the Shaikhi.
- shakerism — the beliefs and practices of the Shakers.
- shamanism — the animistic religion of northern Asia, embracing a belief in powerful spirits that can be influenced only by shamans.
- shamateur — a sportsperson who is officially an amateur but accepts payment
- shambling — to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.
- shambolic — very disorganized; messy or confused: I’ve had a shambolic year, the worst ever.
- shamefast — shamefaced.
- shameless — lacking any sense of shame: immodest; audacious.