8-letter words containing a, s, m, l
- balsamic — any of various fragrant exudations from certain trees, especially trees of the genus Commiphora, as balm-of-Gilead. Compare balm (def 1).
- baysmelt — topsmelt.
- beamless — Not having a beam.
- bensalem — urban township in SE Pa., near Philadelphia: pop. 58,000
- bimensal — occurring every two months
- bioplasm — living matter; protoplasm
- bismanol — a highly ferromagnetic alloy of bismuth and manganese, having a high degree of magnetic force.
- blastema — a mass of undifferentiated animal cells that will develop into an organ or tissue: present at the site of regeneration of a lost part
- blastoma — a tumour composed of embryonic tissue that has not yet developed a specialized function
- bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
- cabalism — a mystical philosophical doctrine based on the doctrines of the cabala
- callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.
- calmness — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
- calumets — Plural form of calumet.
- camelids — Plural form of camelid.
- camelish — similar to a camel
- camisole — A camisole is a short piece of clothing that women wear on the top half of their bodies underneath a shirt or blouse, for example.
- caramels — Plural form of caramel.
- chalmers — Alexander, 1759–1834, Scottish biographer, editor, and journalist.
- chamisal — a thicket or overgrowth of chamiso
- chiliasm — belief in the coming of the millennium
- chloasma — the appearance on a person's skin, esp of the face, of patches of darker colour: associated with hormonal changes caused by liver disease or the use of oral contraceptives
- chrismal — Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.
- cis male — a person who was born male and whose gender identity is male.
- clambers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clamber.
- clammers — Plural form of clammer.
- clamours — Plural form of clamour.
- clampers — Plural form of clamper.
- clansman — Clansmen are people who are members of the same clan.
- clansmen — Irregular plural form of clansman.
- classism — the belief that people from certain social or economic classes are superior to others
- classman — a graduate of Oxford University with a classed honours degree
- classmen — Plural form of classman.
- clematis — A clematis is a type of flowering shrub which can be grown to climb up walls or fences. There are many different varieties of clematis.
- climates — Plural form of climate.
- climaxes — Plural form of climax.
- cosmical — of or relating to the cosmos: cosmic laws.
- costumal — Pertaining to costume or dress.
- custumal — a customary.
- dalesman — a person living in a dale, esp in the dales of N England
- dalesmen — Plural form of dalesman.
- damocles — a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- demersal — living or occurring on the bottom of a sea or a lake
- desklamp — A lamp used to illuminate a desk.
- dilemmas — A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, esp. equally undesirable ones.
- diplomas — Plural form of diploma.
- disclaim — to deny or repudiate interest in or connection with; disavow; disown: disclaiming all participation.
- disclame — (obsolete) To disclaim; to expel.