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writings, and various articles: it was to go into effect on November 1, 1765, but met with intense opposition and was repealed in March, 1766.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.