8-letter words containing l, o, m, s
- semillon — a variety of white grape used in winemaking, especially in France in the Sauternes district of Bordeaux.
- seminole — a member of any of several groupings of North American Indians comprising emigrants from the Creek Confederacy territories to Florida or their descendants in Florida and Oklahoma, especially the culturally conservative present-day Florida Indians.
- semioval — shaped like half of an oval
- semolina — a granular, milled product of durum wheat, consisting almost entirely of endosperm particles, used chiefly in the making of pasta.
- shloshim — the period of thirty days' deep mourning following a death
- silkworm — the larva of the Chinese silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which spins a cocoon of commercially valuable silk.
- simoleon — a dollar.
- slalomer — a person who slaloms
- slimdown — instance of an organization cutting staff
- slipform — a moveable mould for building large concrete structures such as roads, towers and bridges
- slommock — to walk assertively with a hip-rolling gait
- slot man — copyeditor (def 3).
- slowworm — blindworm (def 2).
- slumlord — a landlord who owns slum buildings, especially one who fails to maintain or improve the buildings and charges tenants exorbitant rents.
- slummock — to move heavily and awkwardly
- smallboy — the steward's assistant or deputy steward in European households in W Africa
- smallpox — an acute, highly contagious, febrile disease, caused by the variola virus, and characterized by a pustular eruption that often leaves permanent pits or scars: eradicated worldwide by vaccination programs.
- smilodon — any of several saber-toothed cats of the extinct genus Smilodon, that ranged from California through most of South America during the Pleistocene Epoch and had upper canine teeth more than 6 inches (15 cm) long.
- smogless — free of smog; without smog
- smokable — suitable for being smoked.
- smolensk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the upper Dnieper, SW of Moscow: Russians defeated by Napoleon 1812.
- smollett — Tobias George, 1721–71, English novelist.
- smoothly — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- smoulder — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- smouldry — smouldering
- snowmelt — water from snow that is melting or has melted.
- snowmold — a fungus disease of grasses and grains, appearing in lawns as gray patches near the edge of melting snow
- solarism — the interpretation of myths by reference to the sun, especially such interpretation carried to an extreme.
- solarium — a glass-enclosed room, porch, or the like, exposed to the sun's rays, as at a seaside hotel or for convalescents in a hospital.
- solatium — something given in compensation for inconvenience, loss, injury, or the like; recompense.
- solecism — a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage, as unflammable and they was.
- solemnly — grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood: solemn remarks.
- solesmes — a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes, France, known especially for the work of its monks in editing and performing Gregorian chant.
- solidism — the belief that diseases spring from damage to solid parts of the body
- solimena — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1657–1747, Italian painter.
- solimoes — Brazilian name of the Amazon from its junction with the Río Negro to the border of Peru.
- solo man — an early human being of the upper Pleistocene, known from skull fragments found in Java.
- somalian — an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Capital: Mogadishu.
- somberly — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
- somedeal — somewhat.
- soralium — (in a lichen) a group of soredia.
- soulmate — a person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes, and often a romantic bond: I married my soul mate; you don't get much luckier than that.
- soy milk — liquid obtained from soybeans
- st. malo — a fortified seaport in NW France, on the Gulf of St. Malo: resort; surrendered by German forces August 1944.
- stamboul — Istanbul
- stomatal — of, relating to, or of the nature of a stoma.
- stormful — having many storms; stormy
- sump oil — the waste oil from engines
- swelldom — fashionable society
- symbolic — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).