9-letter words containing s, u, i, m, a
- misadjust — to change (something) so that it fits, corresponds, or conforms; adapt; accommodate: to adjust expenses to income.
- misgauged — Simple past tense and past participle of misgauge.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- mistaught — to teach wrongly or badly.
- misusages — Plural form of misusage.
- misvalued — Simple past tense and past participle of misvalue.
- mogadishu — an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Capital: Mogadishu.
- mount isa — a city in NE Australia in NW Queensland: mining of copper and other minerals. Pop: 20 525 (2001)
- mountains — Plural form of mountain.
- mousetail — (botany) Any plant of the genus Ivesia, in the rose family.
- mullahism — governance or rule by mullahs
- mulligans — Plural form of mulligan.
- multicast — Send (data) across a computer network to several users at the same time.
- multiscan — (hardware) A monitor that can synchronise to a variety of horizontal scan rates and refresh rates, allowing it to display images at different resolutions.
- multitask — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- muralists — Plural form of muralist.
- muscadine — a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- mushairas — Plural form of mushaira.
- musicales — Plural form of musicale.
- musically — of, relating to, or producing music: a musical instrument.
- musicians — Plural form of musician.
- musomania — An obsession with music.
- mussitate — to mutter; mumble.
- mustachio — a mustache.
- mutations — Biology. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.
- mutilates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mutilate.
- mutualise — Alternative spelling of mutualize.
- mutualism — a relationship between two species of organisms in which both benefit from the association.
- mutualist — a relationship between two species of organisms in which both benefit from the association.
- novaesium — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia west of Düsseldorf: founded as a Roman fortress in the 1st century ad. Pop: 152 050 (2003 est)
- nursemaid — Also called nurserymaid. a woman or girl employed to care for a child or several children, especially in a household.
- ossuarium — ossuary.
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- paulinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by or attributed to the apostle Paul.
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- pluralism — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- potassium — a silvery-white metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in the air and whose compounds are used as fertilizer and in special hard glasses. Symbol: K; atomic weight: 39.102; atomic number: 19; specific gravity: 0.86 at 20°C.
- poujadism — a conservative reactionary movement to protect the business interests of small traders
- quaesitum — something that is sought; the solution to a problem
- quagmires — Plural form of quagmire.
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- quasimodo — Salvatore [sahl-vah-taw-re] /ˌsɑl vɑˈtɔ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–68, Italian poet: Nobel prize 1959.
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- ritualism — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- sacrarium — Roman Catholic Church. a piscina.
- sakyamuni — one of the names of Buddha.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows