9-letter words containing s, m, a, r, t
- outstream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- 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.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- port arms — a position in military drill in which one's rifle is held diagonally in front of the body, with the muzzle pointing upward to the left.
- 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.
- racemates — Plural form of racemate.
- 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.
- rest camp — a camp where soldiers rest
- rest mass — the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body.
- 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.
- royalmast — the highest part of a mast
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- salimeter — salinometer.
- salometer — salinometer.
- samaritan — an inhabitant of Samaria.
- sandstorm — a windstorm, especially in a desert, that blows along great clouds of sand (distinguished from dust storm).
- sarmatian — the ancient name of a region in E Europe, between the Vistula and the Volga.
- sarmentum — a slender running stem; runner.
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- satu-mare — a city in NW Romania.
- saturnism — lead poisoning (def 1b).
- sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
- semantron — a bar struck instead of a bell in an Orthodox church
- semestral — (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.
- separatum — a reprint of an article separately from the magazine, journal, or book in which it was originally published; an offprint
- 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.
- shamateur — a sportsperson who is officially an amateur but accepts payment
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- sigmatron — a machine for generating X-rays
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- smart ass — If you describe someone as a smart ass, you dislike the fact that they think they are very clever and like to show everyone this.
- smart mob — a large group of people mobilized by social media to meet in a public place typically for the purpose of social or political protest.
- smart off — to be impertinent or flippant
- smart set — sophisticated, fashionable people as a group: a shop catering to the smart set.
- smart-ass — Also, smart-assed, smartassed. characteristic of a smart ass or wise guy.
- smartarse — a clever person, esp one who parades his knowledge offensively
- smartness — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- smartweed — any of several weeds of the genus Polygonum, having a smarting, acrid juice.
- smattered — to speak (a language, words, etc.) with superficial knowledge or understanding.