9-letter words containing im
- soda lime — a mixture of sodium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide.
- soliman i — Suleiman I.
- sometimes — on some occasions; at times; now and then.
- stimulant — Physiology, Medicine/Medical. something that temporarily quickens some vital process or the functional activity of some organ or part: Adrenalin is a stimulant for the heart. Compare depressant (def 4).
- stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stop time — a passage where the beat stops temporarily
- subclimax — the development of an ecological community to a stage short of the expected climax because of some factor, as repeated fires in a forest, that arrests the normal succession.
- sublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- sublimely — elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise Lost is sublime poetry.
- sublimity — the state or quality of being sublime.
- sublimize — to make sublime
- subprimal — (of meat) being a cut of meat larger than a steak, roast, or other single cut but smaller than a side of beef: shipped by the packer to local markets for final cutting to reduce processing costs and to retard spoilage.
- sumpsimus — adherence to or persistence in using a strictly correct term, holding to a precise practice, etc., as a rejection of an erroneous but more common form (opposed to mumpsimus).
- superpimp — a pimp who controls a very large number of prostitutes
- swim mask — mask (def 3).
- swimmeret — (in many crustaceans) one of a number of abdominal limbs or appendages, usually adapted for swimming and for carrying eggs, as distinguished from other limbs adapted for walking or seizing.
- talk time — a prepaid amount of minutes or hours on a mobile phone bill agreement, etc
- tasimeter — a device for measuring small temperature changes. It depends on the changes of pressure resulting from expanding or contracting solids
- taximeter — a device fitted to a taxicab or other vehicle, for automatically computing and indicating the fare due.
- tell time — read the hour on an analogue clock
- testimony — Law. the statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, usually in court.
- the limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
- timbering — the wood of growing trees suitable for structural uses.
- timberman — a person who prepares, erects, and maintains mine timbers.
- time bill — a bill of exchange payable at a specified date.
- time bomb — a bomb constructed so as to explode at a certain time.
- time code — (on video or audio tape) a separate track on which time references are continually recorded in digital form as an aid to editing
- time copy — written material set in type and held for future use. Compare filler (def 5).
- time fuse — a fuse designed to burn for a given time, esp to explode a bomb
- time lamp — an oil lamp of the 17th and 18th centuries, burning at a fixed rate and having a reservoir graduated in units of time.
- time loan — a loan repayable at a specified date.
- time lock — a lock, as for the door of a bank vault, equipped with a mechanism that makes it impossible to operate the lock within certain hours.
- time note — a note payable within a specified number of days after it is presented.
- time slot — allocated period of time
- time span — duration, period
- time suck — something that takes up too much of one's time: Social media is addictive and a huge time suck when I should be studying.
- time warp — a hypothetical eccentricity in the progress of time that would allow movement back and forth between eras or that would permit the passage of time to be suspended.
- time zone — one of the 24 regions or divisions of the globe approximately coinciding with meridians at successive hours from the observatory at Greenwich, England.
- time-poor — lacking spare time or leisure time
- time-worn — worn or impaired by time.
- timeframe — the period of time within which certain events are scheduled to occur
- timenoguy — a taut rope on a ship used to prevent the tangling of lines and riggings
- timepiece — an apparatus for measuring and recording the progress of time; chronometer.
- timesaver — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- timescale — The timescale of an event is the length of time during which it happens or develops.
- timespans — a span of time; time frame.
- timetable — a schedule showing the times at which railroad trains, airplanes, etc., arrive and depart.
- timidness — lacking in self-assurance, courage, or bravery; easily alarmed; timorous; shy.
- timisoara — a city in W Romania.
- timocracy — a form of government in which love of honor is the dominant motive of the rulers.