9-letter words containing s, i, m, o, u
- mosquitos — Plural form of mosquito.
- mouldiest — Superlative form of mouldy.
- mouldings — Plural form of moulding.
- mount isa — a city in NE Australia in NW Queensland: mining of copper and other minerals. Pop: 20 525 (2001)
- mountains — Plural form of mountain.
- mountings — Plural form of mounting.
- mournings — Plural form of mourning.
- mousebird — coly.
- mousefish — sargassumfish.
- mouselike — any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- mousetail — (botany) Any plant of the genus Ivesia, in the rose family.
- mousiness — The property of being mousy.
- mouthings — Plural form of mouthing.
- mucositis — A complication of some cancer therapies in which the lining of the digestive system becomes inflamed. Often seen as sores in the mouth.
- mulierose — (obsolete) Fond of women.
- multidose — (pharmacy) Containing multiple doses.
- munitions — Usually, munitions. materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition.
- murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
- musciform — (botany) Having the appearance or form of a moss.
- muscovite — a native or inhabitant of Moscow.
- music box — a box or case containing an apparatus for producing music mechanically, as by means of a comblike steel plate with tuned teeth sounded by small pegs or pins in the surface of a revolving cylinder or disk.
- musomania — An obsession with music.
- mussolini — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Italian be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Italian bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), (I"Il Duce") 1883–1945, Italian Fascist leader: premier of Italy 1922–43.
- mustachio — a mustache.
- mutations — Biology. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.
- mutsuhito — 1852–1912, emperor of Japan 1867–1912.
- mycovirus — any fungus-infecting virus.
- myxovirus — any of a group of medium-sized, RNA-containing viruses having a helical envelope, infectious to humans and other animals and a cause of influenza.
- nicodemus — a Pharisee and member of the Sanhedrin who became a secret follower of Jesus. John 3:1–21; 7:50–52; 19:39.
- 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)
- occultism — belief in the existence of secret, mysterious, or supernatural agencies.
- ominously — portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
- omnibuses — Plural form of omnibus.
- osmoticum — (biology) Any substance that acts to supplement osmotic pressure in a plant or a culture of plant cells.
- osmundine — compost made from dried fern roots
- ossiculum — (anatomy) An ossicle.
- ossuarium — ossuary.
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
- pop music — popular music
- potassium — a silvery-white metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in the air and whose compounds are used as fertilizer and in special hard glasses. Symbol: K; atomic weight: 39.102; atomic number: 19; specific gravity: 0.86 at 20°C.
- poujadism — a conservative reactionary movement to protect the business interests of small traders
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- pumiceous — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- quasimodo — Salvatore [sahl-vah-taw-re] /ˌsɑl vɑˈtɔ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–68, Italian poet: Nobel prize 1959.
- quietsome — still, calm, quiet
- quilombos — Plural form of quilombo.
- quixotism — (sometimes initial capital letter) quixotic character or practice.
- routinism — adherence to routine.