8-letter words containing m, a, c, s
- screamed — to utter a loud, sharp, piercing cry.
- screamer — a person or thing that screams.
- scybalum — hard faeces in the intestine
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semiarch — a half arch.
- semicoma — a light coma from which a person can be roused.
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- shamanic — (especially among certain tribal peoples) a person who acts as intermediary between the natural and supernatural worlds, using magic to cure illness, foretell the future, control spiritual forces, etc.
- shamrock — any of several trifoliate plants, as the wood sorrel, Oxalis acetosella, or a small, pink-flowered clover, Trifolium repens minus, but especially Trifolium procumbens, a small, yellow-flowered clover: the national emblem of Ireland.
- sigmatic — characterized by a Greek letter sigma or a Roman S added to a word or stem
- sim card — Subscriber Identity/Identification Module: a removable card inside a cell phone that stores data unique to the user, as an identification number, passwords, phone numbers, and messages.
- simoniac — a person who practices simony.
- smacking — smart, brisk, or strong, as a breeze.
- spaceman — an astronaut.
- specmark — (benchmark) The average of a set of floating-point and integer SPEC benchmark results. While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with the industry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* defined an average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the 1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons: With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92) benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward floating-point. Customers' workloads are different, some integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed. Current processors have developed their strengths in a more diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some more floating-point performance) than in 1989. Some SPECmark results are available here. See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92, SPECrate_fp92.
- stickman — croupier (def 1).
- stockman — U.S. and Australia. a person who raises livestock.
- stomachs — Anatomy, Zoology. a saclike enlargement of the alimentary canal, as in humans and certain animals, forming an organ for storing, diluting, and digesting food. such an organ or an analogous portion of the alimentary canal when divided into two or more sections or parts. any one of these sections.
- stomachy — paunchy; having a prominent stomach.
- stomatic — pertaining to the mouth.
- subclaim — a claim that is part of a larger claim
- supermac — A general-purpose macro language, embeddable in existing languages as a run-time library.
- sycamine — a tree mentioned in the New Testament, probably the black mulberry.
- sycamore — Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.
- symantec — (company) Software manufacturer of utility and development applications for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Products include ACT!, Norton Utilities, Norton AntiVirus, Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh, Symantec Cafe.
- tachisme — action painting (def 1).
- tacksman — a leaseholder, esp a tenant in the Highlands who sublets
- tsunamic — an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- vasculum — a kind of case or box used by botanists for carrying specimens as they are collected.
- vocalism — Phonetics. a vowel, diphthong, triphthong, or vowel quality, as in a syllable. the system of vowels of a language.
- wormcast — A small pile of sand or soil, the end product of the breakdown of organic matter by an earthworm.