7-letter words containing c, i, s, m
- coueism — a method of self-help stressing autosuggestion, popular especially in the U.S. c1920 and featuring the slogan “Day by day in every way I am getting better and better.”.
- cretism — a lie or falsehood
- crimson — Something that is crimson is deep red in colour.
- crissum — the area or feathers surrounding the cloaca of a bird
- cultism — The system or practice of a cult.
- cumbias — Plural form of cumbia.
- cymaise — a pewter wine jar having a spout, a fixed handle on the side opposite the spout, and a bail for carrying.
- czarism — the Russian government under the czars
- decimus — (in prescriptions) tenth.
- dictums — Plural form of dictum.
- discman — a small portable CD player with light headphones
- disomic — having an extra chromosome in the haploid state that is homologous to an existing chromosome in this set
- echoism — onomatopoeia.
- emetics — Plural form of emetic.
- emiscan — a computerized radiological technique for examining the soft tissues of the body, esp the brain, to detect the presence of tumours, abscesses, etc
- epicism — a style or trope characteristic of epics
- etacism — (grammar) The pronunciation of the Greek eta like the Italian long e, or the vowel in the English word 'ate'.
- fascism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
- gramsci — Antonio [an-toh-nee-oh;; Italian ahn-taw-nyaw] /ænˈtoʊ ni oʊ;; Italian ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1937, Italian political leader and theorist: a founder of the Italian Communist Party 1921.
- grecism — the spirit of Greek thought, art, etc.
- iambics — Plural form of iambic.
- iconism — The formation of a figure, representation, or semblance; a delineation or description.
- impacts — Plural form of impact.
- incomes — Plural form of income.
- iricism — Irishism.
- ischium — the lower portion of either innominate bone.
- islamic — the religious faith of Muslims, based on the words and religious system founded by the prophet Muhammad and taught by the Koran, the basic principle of which is absolute submission to a unique and personal god, Allah.
- ismatic — following fashionable doctrines
- isthmic — isthmian
- itacism — the pronunciation of the Greek letter eta as in Modern Greek
- jicamas — Plural form of jicama.
- laicism — the nonclerical, or secular, control of political and social institutions in a society (distinguished from clericalism).
- leucism — An animal condition characterized by reduced pigmentation.
- locoism — a disease chiefly of sheep, horses, and cattle, caused by the eating of locoweed and characterized by weakness, impaired vision, irregular behavior, and paralysis.
- maclisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed at MIT AI Lab in 1966, known for its efficiency and programming facilities. MacLisp was later used by Project MAC, Mathlab and Macsyma. It ran on the PDP-10. It introduced the LEXPR (a function with variable arity), macros, arrays, and CATCH/THROW. MacLisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being Interlisp). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both.
- malices — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
- maniacs — Plural form of maniac.
- masonic — Of or pertaining to stonemasons or masonry.
- medicos — Plural form of medico.
- mencius — c380–289 b.c, Chinese philosopher.
- menisci — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- mercies — compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
- mesonic — Of or pertaining to mesons.
- metrics — Mathematics. a nonnegative real-valued function having properties analogous to those of the distance between points on a real line, as the distance between two points being independent of the order of the points, the distance between two points being zero if, and only if, the two points coincide, and the distance between two points being less than or equal to the sum of the distances from each point to an arbitrary third point.
- miasmic — noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
- micheas — Micah (defs 1, 2).
- mickeys — Plural form of mickey.
- microns — Plural form of micron.
- mincers — Plural form of mincer.
- misacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misact.