9-letter words containing s, m, a, r, t, i
- mistreats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mistreat.
- mistrials — Plural form of mistrial.
- miter saw — a backsaw used for cutting miters.
- 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.
- mixmaster — a disc jockey
- moralists — Plural form of moralist.
- mortalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of mortalize.
- muralists — Plural form of muralist.
- myristate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of myristic acid.
- myristica — (botany) Any member of the genus Myristica of nutmegs.
- mysterial — (obsolete) mysterious.
- narcotism — habitual use of narcotics.
- origamist — A person who does origami.
- osmeteria — glands in some caterpillars that secrete foul-smelling substances to deter predators
- ostracism — exclusion, by general consent, from social acceptance, privileges, friendship, etc.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- prismatic — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- privatism — concern with or pursuit of one's personal or family interests, welfare, or ideals to the exclusion of broader social issues or relationships.
- rainstorm — a storm with heavy rain.
- ranterism — a radical 17th-century Christian doctrine based on a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and disregard of formal worship
- redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- ritualism — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- salimeter — salinometer.
- samaritan — an inhabitant of Samaria.
- sarmatian — the ancient name of a region in E Europe, between the Vistula and the Volga.
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- saturnism — lead poisoning (def 1b).
- sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
- septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- sigmatron — a machine for generating X-rays
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
- spermatia — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
- stiff arm — to push away (an opponent) with one's arm out straight
- stiff-arm — straight-arm.
- streaming — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- strip map — a map charting only the immediate territory to be traversed, which appears as a long, narrow strip.
- submatrix — a set of certain rows and columns of a given matrix.
- summarist — a person who summarizes
- sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
- tarantism — a mania characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance, especially as prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, popularly attributed to the bite of the tarantula.
- tasimeter — a device for measuring small temperature changes. It depends on the changes of pressure resulting from expanding or contracting solids
- taylorism — a modified form of Calvinism that maintains that every person has a free will, and that makes a distinction between depravity, as the tendency to commit sins, and sin, as a voluntary choice of evil actions.