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9-letter words containing am

  • skin game — a dishonest or unscrupulous business operation, scheme, etc.
  • slam dunk — basketball: score from above rim
  • slam-bang — with noisy violence: He drove slam-bang through the garage door.
  • slam-dunk — Basketball. to dunk (the ball) with great force.
  • slamdance — to hurl oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock concert
  • snail cam — a cam with spiral cross section used for progressive lifting of a lever as the cam revolves
  • sociogram — a sociometric diagram representing the pattern of relationships between individuals in a group, usually expressed in terms of which persons they prefer to associate with.
  • soft clam — soft-shell clam.
  • sörenstam — Annika (ˈænɪka). born 1970, Swedish golfer; winner of the US Women's Open (1995, 1996, 2006), the LPGA Championship (2003, 2004, 2005), and the British Women's Open (2003)
  • spirogram — a record made by a spirograph
  • spodogram — the ash pattern produced by incinerating a plant
  • squamella — a small scale or bract in a plant
  • squamosal — Anatomy. of or relating to the thin, scalelike portion of the temporal bone that is situated on the side of the skull above and behind the ear.
  • squeamish — fastidious or dainty.
  • st. james — a palace in London, England: the royal residence from the time of Henry VIII until the accession of Victoria.
  • staminate — having a stamen or stamens.
  • staminode — a sterile or abortive stamen.
  • staminody — the metamorphosis of any of various flower organs, as a sepal or a petal, into a stamen.
  • staminoid — like a stamen
  • stamp act — an act of the British Parliament for raising revenue in the American Colonies by requiring the use of stamps and stamped paper for official documents, commercial writings, and various articles: it was to go into effect on November 1, 1765, but met with intense opposition and was repealed in March, 1766.
  • stamp out — to strike or beat with a forcible, downward thrust of the foot.
  • stamp tax — a tax whose revenue is derived from the sale of stamps that are required to be affixed to certain retail merchandise and legal documents.
  • stampeder — a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.
  • stampless — without a stamp
  • steadicam — a mechanism for steadying a handheld camera, consisting of a shock-absorbing arm to which the camera is attached and a harness worn by the camera operator
  • steamboat — a steam-driven vessel, especially a small one or one used on inland waters.
  • steamless — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
  • steampipe — a pipe for conveying steam from a boiler.
  • steampunk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
  • steamship — a large commercial vessel, especially one driven by steam.
  • stramazon — a downward fencing stroke
  • streambed — the channel in which a stream flows or formerly flowed.
  • streaming — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
  • streamlet — a small stream; rivulet.
  • streamway — the bed of a stream.
  • styrofoam — Styrofoam is a very light, plastic substance, used especially to make containers.
  • sub-frame — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
  • subfamily — Biology. a category of related genera within a family.
  • subsample — a specimen from or a small part of a sample.
  • sudaminal — pertaining to a sudamen or sudamina; comprising sudamina
  • sun cream — a chemical, usually in the form of a cream, applied to exposed skin to block out all or almost all of the ultraviolet rays of the sun
  • supertram — a tram with greater capacity and speed than conventional trams
  • suquamish — a member of a Salishan-speaking North American Indian people of Washington, near Puget Sound.
  • surf clam — any of several typically large common clams of the family Mactridae, inhabiting the zone of breaking surf in coastal waters.
  • swamp gas — marsh gas
  • swampfish — a small fish, Chologaster cornuta, related to the cavefishes, inhabiting swamps and streams of the Atlantic coastal plain, having small but functional eyes and almost transparent skin.
  • swampland — land or an area covered with swamps.
  • swat team — A SWAT team is a group of policemen who have been specially trained to deal with very dangerous or violent situations. SWAT is an abbreviation for 'Special Weapons and Tactics'.
  • t & g — Transport and General Workers' Union
  • tacamahac — any of several resinous substances, used in incenses, ointments, etc.
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