8-letter words containing c, o, m, s
- isocheim — a line on a map connecting points that have the same mean winter temperature.
- isocryme — a line on a map connecting points that have the same temperature during the coldest period of a year
- isodomic — (of ashlar) composed of stones of uniform size.
- isogamic — isogamous
- isomeric — of, relating to, or displaying isomerism.
- isotimic — (of a line or surface in space) having an equal value of some quantity at a given time.
- isozymic — Pertaining to an isozyme.
- laconism — laconic brevity.
- lipscomb — William Nunn [nuhn] /nʌn/ (Show IPA), Jr. 1919–2011, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1976.
- localism — a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
- logicism — the doctrine, developed chiefly by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, that mathematics can be reduced to logic.
- mac os x — (operating system) /mak oss ten/ Version 10 of the Macintosh Operating System, based on FreeBSD unlike prevoius versions. Apple released the kernel of Mac OS X Server as "darwin", under an open source license. Mac OS X incldues a code framework called the "Core Foundation" and an "Application Kit" framework for GUI and widgets strongly derived from NEXTSTEP.
- macarons — Plural form of macaron.
- machismo — a strong or exaggerated sense of manliness; an assumptive attitude that virility, courage, strength, and entitlement to dominate are attributes or concomitants of masculinity.
- machoism — having or characterized by qualities considered manly, especially when manifested in an assertive, self-conscious, or dominating way.
- maculose — related to or characterized by having spots
- maddocks — Plural form of maddock.
- mammocks — Plural form of mammock.
- masaccio — (Tommaso Guidi) 1401–28? Italian painter.
- mascaron — mask (def 11).
- mashloch — (Scotland, obsolete) A type of low-quality bread made from flour and other grains.
- massicot — monoxide of lead, PbO, in the form of a yellow powder, used as a pigment and drier.
- mattocks — Plural form of mattock.
- mcintosh — a variety of red apple that ripens in early autumn.
- megacosm — (obsolete) A macrocosm.
- melodics — the branch of musical science concerned with the pitch and succession of tones.
- mercosur — a trading block composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela, with associate members Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; superseded in 2008 by the Union of South American Nations (Unasur or Unasul), by uniting with the Andean Community
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- mesolect — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- mesozoic — noting or pertaining to an era occurring between 230 and 65 million years ago, characterized by the appearance of flowering plants and by the appearance and extinction of dinosaurs.
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- microbus — minibus.
- miscoded — to code mistakenly, as in data processing.
- miscolor — to give a wrong color to.
- miscount — an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- misfocus — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- mistcoat — (in house painting or interior decoration) a coat of thinner, sometimes pigmented, applied to a finish coat of paint to increase its luster.
- mistouch — To touch inappropriately, wrongly or by mistake.
- mocassin — Alternative spelling of moccasin.
- moccasin — a heelless shoe made entirely of soft leather, as deerskin, with the sole brought up and attached to a piece of u -shaped leather on top of the foot, worn originally by the American Indians.
- mock sun — parhelion.
- mod cons — Mod cons are the modern facilities in a house that make it easy and pleasant to live in.
- molecast — the heap of earth excavated by a mole tunnelling underground
- mollusca — the phylum comprising the mollusks.
- molluscs — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- moluccas — a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 1 990 598 (2000). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- monarchs — a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor.
- monastic — of or relating to monasteries: a monastic library.
- monistic — Philosophy. (in metaphysics) any of various theories holding that there is only one basic substance or principle as the ground of reality, or that reality consists of a single element. Compare dualism (def 2), pluralism (def 1a). (in epistemology) a theory that the object and datum of cognition are identical. Compare pluralism (def 1b).
- monocles — Plural form of monocle.