9-letter words containing s, m, a, l, o
- 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.
- mousetail — (botany) Any plant of the genus Ivesia, in the rose family.
- moygashel — an Irish linen
- mulattoes — Plural form of mulatto.
- neoplasms — Plural form of neoplasm.
- no claims — A no claims discount or bonus is a reduction in the money that you have to pay for an insurance policy, which you get when you have not made any claims in the previous year.
- nonmetals — an element not having the character of a metal, as carbon or nitrogen.
- normalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of normalize.
- 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.
- olympiads — Plural form of olympiad.
- osmically — with regard to smell
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- panlogism — the doctrine that the universe is a realization or act of the logos.
- piroplasm — babesia.
- plasmasol — the relatively fluid, inner cytoplasm of a pseudopod of an ameba.
- plasmodia — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- platonism — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.
- psalmbook — a book containing psalms for liturgical or devotional use.
- rascaldom — the domain of rascals, a group of rascals
- rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
- royalmast — the highest part of a mast
- sago palm — any of several tropical Old World palms, as of the genera Metroxylon and Caryota, that yield sago.
- salesroom — a room in which goods are sold or displayed.
- salmonoid — resembling a salmon.
- salometer — salinometer.
- salt dome — a domelike rock structure that is formed beneath the earth's surface by the upward movement of a mass of salt, may reach thousands of feet in vertical extent, and is more or less circular in plan: often associated with oil and gas pools.
- samuelson — Paul A(nthony) 1915–2009, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1970.
- scalogram — an attitude scale in which a positive answer to an item implies agreement with items appearing lower on the scale.
- schoolman — a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.
- semivocal — of or relating to a semivowel
- shambolic — very disorganized; messy or confused: I’ve had a shambolic year, the worst ever.
- showmanly — characteristic of a showman
- sialogram — an X-ray of a salivary gland
- sigmoidal — shaped like the letter C.
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- socialism — a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
- soda lime — a mixture of sodium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide.
- soft clam — soft-shell clam.
- soliman i — Suleiman I.
- solyman i — Suleiman I.
- someplace — somewhere.
- soul mate — a person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes, and often a romantic bond: I married my soul mate; you don't get much luckier than that.
- spoilsman — a person who seeks or receives a share in political spoils.
- squamosal — Anatomy. of or relating to the thin, scalelike portion of the temporal bone that is situated on the side of the skull above and behind the ear.
- stomachal — a medication that is good for the stomach
- subnormal — below the normal; less than or inferior to the normal: a subnormal amount of rain.
- sum total — complete numerical total: the sum total of my savings.
- symbolang — Lapidus & Goldstein, 1965. Symbol manipulating Fortran subroutine package for IBM 7094, later CDC 6600.