8-letter words containing a, m, d, i, s
- naderism — the philosophy and beliefs of consumerism and environmentalism preached by Ralph Nader
- nomadism — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- paludism — malaria.
- plasmoid — a section of a plasma having a characteristic shape
- pyramids — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- ram disk — (operating system, storage) A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off.
- salmonid — belonging or pertaining to the family Salmonidae, including the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes.
- samizdat — a clandestine publishing system within the Soviet Union, by which forbidden or unpublishable literature was reproduced and circulated privately.
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- sea-maid — a mermaid.
- semiarid — characterized by very little annual rainfall, usually from 10 to 20 inches (25 to 50 cm): the struggle to raise vegetables in semiarid regions.
- semibald — partly bald
- semideaf — partly deaf
- semihard — partly hard; not completely hard
- sesamoid — shaped like a sesame seed, as certain small nodular bones and cartilages.
- side arm — a weapon, as a pistol or sword, carried at the side or in the belt.
- sidesman — a man elected to help the parish church warden
- sim card — Subscriber Identity/Identification Module: a removable card inside a cell phone that stores data unique to the user, as an identification number, passwords, phone numbers, and messages.
- sodamide — sodium amide.
- sudarium — (in ancient Rome) a cloth, usually of linen, for wiping the face; handkerchief.
- sympodia — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
- sysadmin — a computer system administrator
- tameside — a unitary authority of NW England, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 213 400 (2003 est). Area: 103 sq km (40 sq miles)
- tidesman — a Customs official at a port
- toadyism — an obsequious flatterer; sycophant.