8-letter words containing m, a, o, s
- omphalos — the navel; umbilicus.
- onstream — Being produced.
- oogamous — one of a pair of structurally dissimilar gametes, the female gamete being large and nonmotile and the male gamete being small and motile.
- opsimath — (rare) A person who learns late in life.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., 2004.
- organism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- orgasmed — Simple past tense and past participle of orgasm.
- orgasmic — the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation.
- osmotica — Plural form of osmoticum.
- osmundas — Plural form of osmunda.
- ostmarks — Plural form of ostmark.
- ostomate — A person who has had an ostomy, a surgical operation to create an opening in the body for the discharge of body wastes.
- ottomans — Plural form of ottoman.
- outshame — to shame greatly or surpass in shamefulness
- outsmart — to get the better of (someone); outwit.
- overmast — to provide (a ship) with a mast that is too tall or heavy
- oversman — an overseer
- parosmia — a disorder of the sense of smell, especially the perception of odors that are not present.
- paroxysm — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- pashadom — the office or territory of a pasha
- passmore — George. Born 1943, a British artist who is noted esp for his photomontages and performance works with Gilbert Proesch
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- plasmoid — a section of a plasma having a characteristic shape
- pleonasm — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- postgame — of, relating to, or happening in the period immediately following a sports game: Join us for the postgame wrap-up. Fans lost control in a postgame melee.
- postmark — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- programs — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- prosaism — prosaic character or style.
- proseman — a writer of prose
- prosomal — relating to a prosoma
- psalmody — the act, practice, or art of setting psalms to music.
- racemose — Botany. having the form of a raceme. arranged in racemes.
- racemous — racemose.
- ramulose — having many small branches.
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- ransomer — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- rearmost — farthest in the rear; last.
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- romanism — Roman Catholicism.
- romanist — Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- romanovs — a member of the imperial dynasty of Russia that ruled from 1613 to 1917.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- rosamond — a feminine name: dim. Roz
- rosamund — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “horse” and “protection.”.
- rosarium — a rose garden.
- rosemary — an evergreen shrub, Rosmarinus officinalis, of the mint family, native to the Mediterranean region, having leathery, narrow leaves and pale-blue, bell-shaped flowers, used as a seasoning and in perfumery and medicine: a traditional symbol of remembrance.
- rosemead — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- royalism — the principles of royal government; monarchism
- sagamore — (among the American Indians of New England) a chief or leader.
- sailroom — the space on a ship for storing sails
- saleroom — Chiefly British. salesroom (def 2).