8-letter words containing a, n, o, s, m
- monastir — Bitola
- monerans — Plural form of moneran.
- monotask — to perform one task at a time
- monstera — any of various tropical American climbing plants belonging to the genus Monstera, of the arum family, especially M. deliciosa, having split or perforated leaves and often grown as a houseplant.
- montages — Plural form of montage.
- moonbase — (scifi) A base located on a moon.
- moonsail — a small sail carried high on the mast above the skysail
- moraines — Plural form of moraine.
- mordants — Plural form of mordant.
- mossland — a land covered in peat
- nabobism — any very wealthy, influential, or powerful person.
- neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
- neuromas — Plural form of neuroma.
- no-mates — designating a person with no friends
- 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.
- nominals — Plural form of nominal.
- norseman — Northman.
- onstream — Being produced.
- organism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- osmundas — Plural form of osmunda.
- ottomans — Plural form of ottoman.
- oversman — an overseer
- pleonasm — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- proseman — a writer of prose
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- ransomer — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- romanism — Roman Catholicism.
- romanist — Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- romanovs — a member of the imperial dynasty of Russia that ruled from 1613 to 1917.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- rosamond — a feminine name: dim. Roz
- rosamund — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “horse” and “protection.”.
- salmonet — a young salmon
- salmonid — belonging or pertaining to the family Salmonidae, including the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes.
- san remo — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Riviera: resort.
- sandworm — any of several marine worms that live in sand.
- sangamon — the third interglacial stage of the Pleistocene Epoch in North America, after the Illinoian glacial stage and before the Wisconsin.
- saxonism — an English word or idiom of Anglo-Saxon rather than foreign, as Latin or French, origin.
- scammony — a twining, Asian convolvulus, Convolvulus scammonia.
- scotsman — a person, especially a man, who is a native or inhabitant of Scotland; Scot.
- seamount — a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- seawoman — a woman sailor or a woman who works on a ship or in the navy
- seminoma — a malignant tumour of the testicle
- semolina — a granular, milled product of durum wheat, consisting almost entirely of endosperm particles, used chiefly in the making of pasta.
- shame on — shame should be felt by; this is shameful of
- shamokin — a borough in E Pennsylvania.
- shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
- simoniac — a person who practices simony.
- slot man — copyeditor (def 3).