9-letter words containing y, e, s, m
- mystified — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- mystifier — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- mystifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mystify.
- mythicise — Alt form mythicize.
- myxospore — a spore produced within any of various fruiting bodies of myxomycetes.
- nonsystem — a system that does not function properly
- oomycetes — Plural form of oomycete.
- osmometry — measurement of osmotic pressure.
- ostectomy — excision of part or all of a bone.
- osteotomy — the dividing of a bone, or the excision of part of it.
- 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.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- polysemic — capable of having several possible meanings
- prettyism — an affectedly pretty style
- pseudonym — a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. Compare allonym (def 1).
- pycnosome — a body type characterized by stockiness
- remissory — tending to gain remission
- rhymester — a writer of inferior verse; poetaster.
- rosemarys — a female given name.
- sameyness — the quality of being monotonous, repetitive, or unvaried
- samoyedic — of or relating to the Samoyed people or languages.
- seemingly — apparent; appearing, whether truly or falsely, to be as specified: a seeming advantage.
- semideify — to elevate (a person, object, or nature) to the status of a demigod.
- semihardy — partially hardy; able to survive moderately low temperatures: semihardy plants.
- seminally — pertaining to, containing, or consisting of semen.
- semiology — the study of signs and symbols; semiotics.
- smoke-dry — to dry or cure (meat or other food) using smoke.
- sokemanry — tenure of land subject to the soke of someone else.
- solemnify — to make solemn: to solemnify an occasion with hymns and prayers.
- solemnity — the state or character of being solemn; earnestness; gravity; impressiveness: the solemnity of a state funeral.
- spymaster — an espionage agent who directs a network of subordinate agents.
- staymaker — a corset maker, a maker of stays
- streamway — the bed of a stream.
- stymieing — Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
- sublimely — elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise Lost is sublime poetry.
- subsystem — a secondary or subordinate system.
- supremacy — the state of being supreme.
- supremely — highest in rank or authority; paramount; sovereign; chief.
- symbioses — Biology. the living together of two dissimilar organisms, as in mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, or parasitism. (formerly) mutualism (def 1).
- symbolise — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
- symbolize — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
- symmetral — relating to symmetry
- symmetric — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- synechism — a doctrine of philosophical thinking stressing the importance of the idea of continuity: named and advocated by C. S. Peirce.
- synergism — synergy (def 1).
- synnemata — a spore-bearing structure having very compact conidiophores.
- synoecism — (in ancient Greece) the union of towns under one capital city
- systemise — systematize.