9-letter words containing s, m, a, r
- jerseyman — a native or inhabitant of the island of Jersey.
- jerusalem — a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- jetstream — Alternative spelling of jet stream.
- jumpstart — Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.
- kaiserdom — The dignity, rank or office of a kaiser; the state of being a kaiser.
- kaiserism — autocratic rule, like that of a German kaiser.
- karyosome — Also called chromocenter. any of several masses of chromatin in the reticulum of a cell nucleus.
- keyframes — Plural form of keyframe.
- keystream — (cryptography) A stream of random or pseudorandom characters that are combined with the plaintext to produce a ciphertext.
- kilograms — Plural form of kilogram.
- kissagram — Alternative form of kissogram.
- kissogram — A novelty greeting or message delivered by a man or woman who accompanies it with a kiss, arranged as a humorous surprise for the recipient.
- laborsome — Alternative form of laboursome.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- laburnums — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lacrimoso — sad or mournful
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lamenters — Plural form of lamenter.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- landforms — a specific geomorphic feature on the surface of the earth, ranging from large-scale features such as plains, plateaus, and mountains to minor features such as hills, valleys, and alluvial fans.
- landmarks — Plural form of landmark.
- landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- lawmakers — Plural form of lawmaker.
- lexigrams — Plural form of lexigram.
- link arms — If two or more people link arms, or if one person links arms with another, they stand next to each other, and each person puts their arm round the arm of the person next to them.
- logograms — Plural form of logogram.
- lossmaker — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
- macaroons — Plural form of macaroon.
- macerates — Plural form of macerate.
- mackerels — Plural form of mackerel.
- mackerras — Sir Charles. 1925–2010, Australian conductor, esp of opera
- macro sap — Macro processing modification of SAP. D.E. Eastwood and D.M. McIlroy, unpublished memorandum, Bell Labs 1959. Led to TRAC.
- macrocosm — the great world or universe; the universe considered as a whole (opposed to microcosm).
- macrocyst — a large cyst or spore case, especially the encysted, resting plasmodium of a slime mold.
- macropods — Plural form of macropod.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- macrotous — having large ears
- macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
- madarosis — the abnormal loss of eyebrows or eyelashes
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- madrassas — Plural form of madrassa.
- madrigals — Plural form of madrigal.
- maelstrom — a large, powerful, or violent whirlpool.
- magisters — Plural form of magister.
- magistery — an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.
- magistral — Pharmacology. prescribed or prepared for a particular occasion, as a remedy. Compare officinal (def 1).
- magnetars — Plural form of magnetar.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.