8-letter words containing d, a, m, s
- modalist — an adherent of modalism
- modjeska — Helena [huh-ley-nuh] /həˈleɪ nə/ (Show IPA), (Helena Opid Modrzejewska) 1840–1909, Polish actress, in U.S. after 1876.
- monadism — the doctrine of monads as ultimate units of being.
- monardas — Plural form of monarda.
- mordants — Plural form of mordant.
- mossland — a land covered in peat
- mud wasp — any of several wasps, as the mud dauber, that construct a nest of mud.
- mudbanks — Plural form of mudbank.
- mudbaths — Plural form of mudbath.
- mudflaps — Plural form of mudflap.
- mudflats — Plural form of mudflat.
- mudlarks — Plural form of mudlark.
- mudspate — mudflow.
- mundanes — Plural form of mundane.
- muscadel — muscatel.
- muscadet — a white grape grown especially in the lower Loire Valley region of France.
- muscadin — a person with monarchical sympathies during the French Revolution, especially from 1794 to 1796.
- mushhead — a stupid person.
- mustards — Plural form of mustard.
- mustardy — Like mustard.
- mut dash — a dash equal in length to one side of an em quad; em dash.
- naderism — the philosophy and beliefs of consumerism and environmentalism preached by Ralph Nader
- nerdgasm — a feeling of intense excitement felt by someone considered to be a nerd, esp. when caused by something relating to his or her leisure interests such as a new piece of technology, computer game, science fiction film, etc.
- 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.
- orgasmed — Simple past tense and past participle of orgasm.
- osmundas — Plural form of osmunda.
- paludism — malaria.
- pashadom — the office or territory of a pasha
- plasmoid — a section of a plasma having a characteristic shape
- psalmody — the act, practice, or art of setting psalms to music.
- pyramids — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- ram disk — (operating system, storage) A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off.
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- red mass — a votive Mass of the Holy Ghost said as a blessing for the legal profession.
- rosamond — a feminine name: dim. Roz
- rosamund — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “horse” and “protection.”.
- rosemead — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- salaamed — a salutation meaning “peace,” used especially in Islamic countries.
- salmonid — belonging or pertaining to the family Salmonidae, including the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes.
- same-day — carried out or taking place on the same day as a preliminary action
- samizdat — a clandestine publishing system within the Soviet Union, by which forbidden or unpublishable literature was reproduced and circulated privately.
- sandpump — a pump for wet sand
- sandworm — any of several marine worms that live in sand.
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- screamed — to utter a loud, sharp, piercing cry.
- sea-maid — a mermaid.
- seadrome — a floating airdrome serving as an intermediate or emergency landing place for aircraft flying over water.
- seedsman — a sower of seed.
- semiarid — characterized by very little annual rainfall, usually from 10 to 20 inches (25 to 50 cm): the struggle to raise vegetables in semiarid regions.