9-letter words containing s, o, m, a
- himations — Plural form of himation.
- hiroshima — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: first military use of atomic bomb August 6, 1945.
- histogram — a graph of a frequency distribution in which rectangles with bases on the horizontal axis are given widths equal to the class intervals and heights equal to the corresponding frequencies.
- holograms — Plural form of hologram.
- home base — Baseball. home plate.
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homestall — Dialect. a farmyard.
- homestand — (baseball) A series of games played at a team's home field.
- homestays — Plural form of homestay.
- homestead — a town in S Florida.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- homewares — (chiefly, British) Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- homotaxis — a similarity of arrangement, as of geologic strata or fossil assemblages that have the same relative position but are not necessarily contemporaneous.
- hormisdas — Saint, died a.d. 523, pope 514–523.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horsemeat — The flesh of a horse as food.
- housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
- housemate — a person with whom one shares a house or other residence.
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- hydrosoma — hydrosome.
- hypostoma — Hypostome.
- ideograms — Plural form of ideogram.
- idiograms — Plural form of idiogram.
- idioplasm — germ plasm.
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- il sodoma — (Giovanni Antonio de Bazzi) [jaw-vahn-nee-ahn-taw-nyaw-de-baht-tsee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ dɛˈbɑt tsi/ (Show IPA), 1477–1549, Italian painter.
- imitators — Plural form of imitator.
- immolates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of immolate.
- immortals — not mortal; not liable or subject to death; undying: our immortal souls.
- impassion — to fill, or affect strongly, with intense feeling or passion; inflame; excite.
- impastoed — (painting) Painted with an impasto.
- imposable — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- incompass — Archaic form of encompass.
- insomniac — a person who suffers from insomnia, the inability, especially when chronic, to obtain sufficient sleep, through difficulty in falling or staying asleep: Her husband, an insomniac, had at last fallen asleep at the computer, head resting on the keyboard.
- insomnias — Plural form of insomnia.
- iron mask — an iron covering for the face, supposedly used in the past to conceal the identity of a well-known prisoner
- islomania — an obsessional enthusiasm or partiality for islands
- isogamete — one of a pair of conjugating gametes, exhibiting no differences in form, size, structure, or sex.
- isogamous — having two similar gametes in which no differentiation can be distinguished, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to heterogamous).
- isomerase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze reactions involving intramolecular rearrangements.
- jamborees — Plural form of jamboree.
- jambstone — a stone, or one of the stones, forming one jamb of an opening.
- jamestown — a British island in the S Atlantic: Napoleon's place of exile 1815–21. 47 sq. mi. (122 sq. km).
- jasmonate — a hormone that regulates plant growth
- jeroboams — Plural form of jeroboam.
- kagoshima — a seaport on S Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- kaiserdom — The dignity, rank or office of a kaiser; the state of being a kaiser.
- kakemonos — (uncommon) Plural form of kakemono.
- kalsomine — to wash or cover with calcimine.