9-letter words containing s, h, m, a, t
- mash unit — a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
- masochist — Psychiatry. a person who has masochism, the condition in which sexual or other gratification depends on one's suffering physical pain or humiliation.
- mast hasp — mast clamp (def 2).
- mastheads — Plural form of masthead.
- masthouse — a place, usually in a dockyard, in which masts are stored
- matchings — Plural form of matching.
- matchless — having no equal; peerless; unequaled; incomparable: matchless courage.
- matchlist — a list of names, telephone numbers, and related information compiled to help people find others who are willing to share a resource or service, as a car pool.
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- mathusala — Methuselah (def 1).
- mathworks — The MathWorks, Inc.
- meatheads — Plural form of meathead.
- meathooks — Usually, meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist: Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.
- mechanist — a person who believes in the theory of mechanism.
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- megaliths — Plural form of megalith.
- merchants — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- 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).
- methylase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyse methylation
- mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
- mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
- mistaught — to teach wrongly or badly.
- mithraism — an ancient Persian religion in which Mithras was worshiped, involving secret rituals to which only men were admitted: a major competitor of Christianity in the Roman empire during the 2nd and 3rd centuries a.d.
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- mouthwash — a solution, often containing antiseptic, astringent, and breath-sweetening agents, used for cleansing the mouth and teeth, and for gargling.
- must-have — A must-have is something modern that many people want to have.
- mustached — Having a mustache.
- mustaches — Plural form of mustache.
- mustachio — a mustache.
- 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.
- 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.
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- phantasma — phantasm (defs 1, 2).
- photomask — an opaque image on a transparent plate that is used to filter light so the image can be transferred, used in photolithography applications
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- 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.
- scotchman — Sometimes Offensive. Scotsman.
- shamateur — a sportsperson who is officially an amateur but accepts payment
- shamefast — shamefaced.
- shantyman — a logger or lumberman
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- shulamite — an epithet meaning “princess,” applied to the bride in the Song of Solomon 6:13.
- sightsman — a tourist guide
- sixth man — a team's best substitute.
- smash hit — a person or thing that is overwhelmingly successful or popular: Both the play and the movie based on it were smash hits.