9-letter words containing s, m, e, l
- plumpness — well filled out or rounded in form; somewhat fleshy or fat.
- plumulose — shaped like a downy feather or plumule.
- pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.
- polysemic — capable of having several possible meanings
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- ptolemies — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
- puerilism — childishness in the behavior of an adult.
- qualmless — having no qualms
- ramillies — a village in central Belgium: Marlborough's defeat of the French 1706.
- realmless — having no realm
- reblossom — (of a plant or flower) to blossom again
- rem sleep — a recurrent period of sleep, typically totaling about two hours a night, during which most dreaming occurs as the eyes move under closed lids and the skeletal muscles are deeply relaxed.
- resampled — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- resembled — to be like or similar to.
- resembles — to be like or similar to.
- rostellum — Biology. any small, beaklike process.
- sailmaker — a person who makes or repairs sails.
- salesroom — a room in which goods are sold or displayed.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- salimeter — salinometer.
- 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.
- salt mine — a mine from which salt is excavated.
- salvemini — Gaetano [gah-e-tah-naw] /ˌgɑ ɛˈtɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1957, Italian historian in the U.S.
- samuelson — Paul A(nthony) 1915–2009, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1970.
- schlemiel — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
- schlemihl — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
- schmeling — Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1905–2005, German boxer: world heavyweight champion 1930–32.
- scrambler — a person or thing that scrambles.
- scutellum — Botany. the shieldlike cotyledon of certain monocots.
- seemingly — apparent; appearing, whether truly or falsely, to be as specified: a seeming advantage.
- seemlihed — seemliness
- segmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
- selectman — (in most New England states) one of a board of town officers chosen to manage certain public affairs.
- self-harm — injury inflicted deliberately on yourself
- self-made — having succeeded in life unaided: He is a self-made man.
- self-mate — a move that will cause a player's king to be mated within a certain number of subsequent moves.
- self-same — You use self-same when you want to emphasize that the person or thing mentioned is exactly the same as the one mentioned previously.
- semblable — a person or thing that resembles or matches another; counterpart.
- semblance — outward aspect or appearance.
- semestral — (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.
- semiangle — half of a particular angle
- semicolon — the punctuation mark (;) used to indicate a major division in a sentence where a more distinct separation is felt between clauses or items on a list than is indicated by a comma, as between the two clauses of a compound sentence.
- semifinal — of or relating to the round preceding the final one in a tournament from which losers are eliminated.
- semifluid — imperfectly fluid; having both fluid and solid characteristics; semiliquid.
- semiglobe — a half globe; a hemisphere
- semigloss — (of paint or a painted surface) having a moderate, satiny luster; having or producing a sheen that is neither flat nor highly glossy.
- semilunar — shaped like a half-moon; crescent.
- semimetal — an element with properties both of a metal and of a non-metal; a metalloid
- seminally — pertaining to, containing, or consisting of semen.