9-letter words containing s, i, m, l
- hindlimbs — Plural form of hindlimb alternative spelling of hind limbs.
- hitlerism — the doctrines, principles, and practices of the Nazi party, especially as developed by Hitler; Nazism.
- homegirls — Plural form of homegirl.
- homeliest — lacking in physical attractiveness; not beautiful; unattractive: a homely child.
- homeslice — Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.).
- homolysis — (chemistry) The decomposition of a substance without reacting with other substances.
- hylozoism — the doctrine that matter is inseparable from life, which is a property of matter.
- idealisms — the cherishing or pursuit of high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc.
- idioplasm — germ plasm.
- il sodoma — (Giovanni Antonio de Bazzi) [jaw-vahn-nee-ahn-taw-nyaw-de-baht-tsee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ dɛˈbɑt tsi/ (Show IPA), 1477–1549, Italian painter.
- ileostomy — the construction of an artificial opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall, permitting drainage of the contents of the small intestine.
- illumines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of illumine.
- immensely — vast; huge; very great: an immense territory.
- immingles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of immingle.
- immolates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of immolate.
- immortals — not mortal; not liable or subject to death; undying: our immortal souls.
- immusical — (archaic) inharmonious; unmusical; discordant.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- impiously — not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.
- implosion — the act of imploding; a bursting inward (opposed to explosion).
- implosive — characterized by a partial vacuum behind the point of closure.
- imposable — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- impulsing — Present participle of impulse.
- impulsion — the act of impelling, driving onward, or pushing.
- impulsive — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- in flames — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- irksomely — In an irksome manner; tediously.
- islamabad — Islamic Republic of, a republic in S Asia, between India and Afghanistan: formerly part of British India; known as West Pakistan from 1947–71 to distinguish it from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). 310,403 sq. mi. (803,881 sq. km). Capital: Islamabad.
- islomania — an obsessional enthusiasm or partiality for islands
- ismailian — a member of the Ismaʿiliya sect.
- ismailiya — a branch of Shiʿism, including in its number the Assassins and the Druses, having an esoteric philosophy and asserting Ismaʿil to be the seventh divinely inspired imam in the succession from Ali.
- istambuli — a native or inhabitant of Istanbul.
- italicism — Italianism, especially an idiom or a characteristic of the Italian language.
- kabbalism — The study of the Kabbalah.
- kalsomine — to wash or cover with calcimine.
- kilograms — Plural form of kilogram.
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- labialism — a tendency, sometimes habitual, to make sounds labial, as in pronouncing the l in love as a w- like sound.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- laconisms — Plural form of laconism.
- lacrimoso — sad or mournful
- ladysmith — a city in W Natal, in the E Republic of South Africa: besieged by Boers 1889–1900.
- lambskins — Plural form of lambskin.
- laminates — Plural form of laminate.
- laminitis — inflammation of sensitive laminae in the hoof of a horse, caused by stressful events, as trauma, infection, or parturition.
- lampadist — (in ancient Greece) a competitor in a race run by young men with torches
- landmines — Plural form of landmine.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- last mile — the distance walked by a condemned person from his or her cell to the place of execution.
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.