9-letter words containing s, t, y, m
- hemocytes — Plural form of hemocyte.
- homestays — Plural form of homestay.
- homestyle — simple and unpretentious, evoking the comforts of home: homestyle cooking; home-style hospitality.
- homostyly — (in plants) the condition of having all the flowers with styles of only one length, rather than of different lengths
- hymnodist — the singing or the composition of hymns or sacred songs.
- hypnotism — the science dealing with the induction of hypnosis.
- hypostoma — Hypostome.
- hypostome — any of several parts or organs of the mouth, as the labrum of a crustacean.
- ileostomy — the construction of an artificial opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall, permitting drainage of the contents of the small intestine.
- immensity — vastness; enormous extent: the immensity of the Roman empire.
- immodesty — not modest in conduct, utterance, etc.; indecent; shameless.
- isorhythm — a structural feature characteristic of the Ars Nova motet, consisting of a single rhythmic phrase pattern repeated, usually in the tenor, throughout the composition.
- keystream — (cryptography) A stream of random or pseudorandom characters that are combined with the plaintext to produce a ciphertext.
- ladysmith — a city in W Natal, in the E Republic of South Africa: besieged by Boers 1889–1900.
- 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.
- lymphitis — (archaic) lymphadenopathy.
- lysimeter — an instrument for determining the amount of water-soluble matter in soil.
- macrocyst — a large cyst or spore case, especially the encysted, resting plasmodium of a slime mold.
- magistery — an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.
- mainstays — Plural form of mainstay.
- mantyhose — a one-piece clinging garment covering the body from the waist to the feet, worn by men
- manyattas — Plural form of manyatta.
- martyrise — Alt form martyrize.
- martyrish — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- massivity — consisting of or forming a large mass; bulky and heavy: massive columns.
- mastocyte — Mast cell.
- mastology — Mammalogy.
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- mateyness — The state of being matey, camaraderie, chumminess.
- matsuyama — a seaport on NW Shikoku, in SW Japan.
- megabytes — Plural form of megabyte.
- mesentery — the membrane, consisting of a double layer of peritoneum, that invests the intestines, attaching them to the posterior wall of the abdomen, maintaining them in position in the abdominal cavity, and supplying them with blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics, especially the part of this membrane investing the jejunum and ileum.
- mesophyte — a plant growing under conditions of well-balanced moisture supply.
- metacryst — a crystal formed by recrystallization of minerals in a metamorphic rock.
- methylase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyse methylation
- methystic — intoxicating
- mistyping — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- monastery — a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- monocytes — (immunology) Plural form of monocyte.
- monostely — the state of being monostelic
- monotypes — Plural form of monotype.
- moskonfyt — a South African thick grape syrup used as a jam or sweetener
- motorways — Plural form of motorway.
- multigyms — Plural form of multigym.
- multisync — (hardware) An NEC trademark term for multiscan. As NEC was the first to manufacture multiscan monitors the term is often used interchangeably with multiscan.
- myologist — the science or branch of anatomy dealing with muscles.
- myomatous — a tumor composed of muscular tissue.
- myostatin — (protein) A protein that acts as an inhibitor to the growth of muscle tissue.
- myristate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of myristic acid.
- myristica — (botany) Any member of the genus Myristica of nutmegs.