9-letter words containing s, t, a, e, m
- mustaches — Plural form of mustache.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- mute swan — a commonly domesticated soundless white swan, Cygnus olor, of Europe and Asia.
- mutilates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mutilate.
- mutualise — Alternative spelling of mutualize.
- myristate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of myristic acid.
- mysterial — (obsolete) mysterious.
- nematodes — Plural form of nematode.
- neogamist — A person recently married; newlywed.
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- new maths — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- nominates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nominate.
- nonmetals — an element not having the character of a metal, as carbon or nitrogen.
- numerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of numerate.
- on stream — If something such as a new factory or a new system comes on stream or is brought on stream, it begins to operate or becomes available.
- on-stream — in or into regular operation, especially as part of a system, assembly line, or the like: When the new printing press goes on-stream, we'll be able to print twice as many newspapers a day.
- ornaments — Plural form of ornament.
- osmeteria — glands in some caterpillars that secrete foul-smelling substances to deter predators
- ostomates — Plural form of ostomate.
- outmaster — to surpass
- outscream — to scream louder than
- 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.
- pa system — a combination of electronic devices that makes sound audible via loudspeakers to many people, as in an auditorium or out of doors.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- passament — passement.
- passement — a garment trimming of gold, silver, linen, or silk thread.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- peat moss — Also called bog moss. any moss, especially of the genus Sphagnum, from which peat may form.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- quaesitum — something that is sought; the solution to a problem
- racemates — Plural form of racemate.
- 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.
- sack time — time spent sleeping.
- 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.
- 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.
- san mateo — a city in W California.
- sarmentum — a slender running stem; runner.