8-letter words containing a, m, e, s
- smallest — of limited size; of comparatively restricted dimensions; not big; little: a small box.
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- smaltite — a mineral, originally thought to have been a diarsenide of cobalt, CoAs 2 , but which is actually a skutterudite rich in cobalt.
- smartest — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- smokable — suitable for being smoked.
- smyrnean — of or relating to Smyrna, Turkey.
- sodamide — sodium amide.
- soembawa — Dutch name of Sumbawa.
- solimena — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1657–1747, Italian painter.
- some day — on an unspecified date in the future
- somedeal — somewhat.
- somegate — in some manner
- somewhat — in some measure or degree; to some extent: not angry, just somewhat disturbed.
- somniate — to dream
- soulmate — a person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes, and often a romantic bond: I married my soul mate; you don't get much luckier than that.
- soupmeat — beef used for making soup stock.
- spaceman — an astronaut.
- spademan — a man who works with spade
- spearman — a person who is armed with or uses a spear.
- specmark — (benchmark) The average of a set of floating-point and integer SPEC benchmark results. While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with the industry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* defined an average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the 1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons: With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92) benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward floating-point. Customers' workloads are different, some integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed. Current processors have developed their strengths in a more diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some more floating-point performance) than in 1989. Some SPECmark results are available here. See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92, SPECrate_fp92.
- spellman — Francis Joseph, Cardinal, 1889–1967, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: archbishop of New York 1939–67.
- spermary — an organ in which spermatozoa are generated; testis.
- spumante — Italian. any sparkling wine.
- squamate — provided or covered with squamae or scales; scaly.
- stampede — a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.
- staumrel — stupid; half-witted.
- steam up — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- steaming — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- steatoma — a fatty tumour or cyst of the sebaceous gland
- steelman — a person engaged in the steelmaking business.
- steinman — David Barnard, 1886–1960, U.S. civil engineer: specialist in bridge design and construction.
- stemhead — the head of the stem of a vessel
- stemware — glass or crystal vessels, especially for beverages and desserts, having rounded bowls mounted on footed stems.
- stenmark — Ingemar ("Silent Swede") born 1956, Swedish Alpine skier.
- stepdame — a stepmother.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- stoneham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- stoneman — a stonecutter or stoneworker.
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- streamer — something that streams: streamers of flame.
- stumpage — standing timber with reference to its value.
- suleiman — ("the Magnificent") 1495?–1566, sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1520–66.
- sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
- summable — capable of being added.
- summated — to add together; total; sum up.
- supermac — A general-purpose macro language, embeddable in existing languages as a run-time library.
- superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supermax — having or relating to the very highest levels of security
- suriname — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- surnames — the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name.