8-letter words containing m, a, o, s
- sonarman — a petty officer who operates and maintains sonar.
- sonogram — the visual image produced by reflected sound waves in a diagnostic ultrasound examination.
- 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.
- soundman — a sound recorder in a television crew
- soupmeat — beef used for making soup stock.
- spanworm — measuringworm.
- squamous — covered with or formed of squamae or scales.
- st. malo — a fortified seaport in NW France, on the Gulf of St. Malo: resort; surrendered by German forces August 1944.
- stamboul — Istanbul
- stamford — a city in SW Connecticut.
- stamp on — tread heavily on
- stasimon — (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode, especially in tragedy, divided into strophe and antistrophe: usually alternating with the epeisodion and, in the final ode, preceding the exodos.
- steatoma — a fatty tumour or cyst of the sebaceous gland
- 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.
- stomatal — of, relating to, or of the nature of a stoma.
- stomatic — pertaining to the mouth.
- stomato- — indicating the mouth or a mouthlike part
- stoneham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- stoneman — a stonecutter or stoneworker.
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- stromata — Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
- subimago — the first winged stage of the mayfly, with dull opaque wings, known to anglers as a dun, before it metamorphoses into the shiny gauzy imago or spinner
- swordman — swordsman.
- 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.
- sympodia — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
- to arms! — arm yourselves!
- toadyism — an obsequious flatterer; sycophant.
- tomatoes — any of several plants belonging to the genus Lycopersicon, of the nightshade family, native to Mexico and Central and South America, especially the widely cultivated species L. lycopersicum, bearing a mildly acid, pulpy, usually red fruit eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.
- totalism — totalitarianism.
- townsman — a native or inhabitant of a town.
- unfamous — having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated: a famous writer. Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious. Antonyms: unknown, obscure.
- vasiform — having the form of a duct or tube.
- vasotomy — incision or opening of the vas deferens.
- vocalism — Phonetics. a vowel, diphthong, triphthong, or vowel quality, as in a syllable. the system of vowels of a language.
- voltaism — the branch of electrical science that deals with the production of electricity or electric currents by chemical action.
- wailsome — wailful.
- washroom — a room having washbowls and other toilet facilities.
- womanise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of womanize.
- womanish — womanlike or feminine.
- womanism — believing in and respecting the abilities and talents of women; acknowledging women's contributions to society.
- womanist — believing in and respecting the abilities and talents of women; acknowledging women's contributions to society.
- woodsman — Also, woodman. a person accustomed to life in the woods and skilled in the arts of the woods, as hunting or trapping.
- woomeras — Plural form of woomera.
- wormcast — A small pile of sand or soil, the end product of the breakdown of organic matter by an earthworm.
- yahooism — The behaviour or attitudes of yahoos; ignorant boorishness.
- yawnsome — dull and boring; tiresome