8-letter words containing m, a, o, s
- salmonet — a young salmon
- salmonid — belonging or pertaining to the family Salmonidae, including the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes.
- san remo — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Riviera: resort.
- sandworm — any of several marine worms that live in sand.
- sangamon — the third interglacial stage of the Pleistocene Epoch in North America, after the Illinoian glacial stage and before the Wisconsin.
- sao tome — Democratic Republic of, a republic in W Africa, comprising the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, in the Gulf of Guinea, N of the equator: a former overseas province of Portugal; gained independence in 1975. 372 sq. mi. (964 sq. km). Capital: São Tomé.
- saramago — José [zhoo-ze] /ʒʊˈzɛ/ (Show IPA), 1922–2010, Portuguese journalist, playwright, and novelist: Nobel prize 1998.
- saxonism — an English word or idiom of Anglo-Saxon rather than foreign, as Latin or French, origin.
- scammony — a twining, Asian convolvulus, Convolvulus scammonia.
- scarmoge — a skirmish or minor conflict
- scleroma — a tumorlike hardening of tissue.
- scolioma — an abnormal curving of the spine
- scotsman — a person, especially a man, who is a native or inhabitant of Scotland; Scot.
- sea foam — the foam of the sea.
- sea moss — Botany. any of certain frondlike red algae.
- sea room — unobstructed space at sea in which a vessel can be easily maneuvered or navigated.
- seadrome — a floating airdrome serving as an intermediate or emergency landing place for aircraft flying over water.
- seamount — a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- seawoman — a woman sailor or a woman who works on a ship or in the navy
- semicoma — a light coma from which a person can be roused.
- seminoma — a malignant tumour of the testicle
- 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.
- sesamoid — shaped like a sesame seed, as certain small nodular bones and cartilages.
- shame on — shame should be felt by; this is shameful of
- shamokin — a borough in E Pennsylvania.
- 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.
- shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
- shortarm — (of a punch) with the arm bent
- simoniac — a person who practices simony.
- slalomer — a person who slaloms
- slot man — copyeditor (def 3).
- 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.
- smokable — suitable for being smoked.
- sodamide — sodium amide.
- soembawa — Dutch name of Sumbawa.
- 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.
- solimena — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1657–1747, Italian painter.
- 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.
- somatism — a psychiatrist who considers all mental illnesses to have physical origins.
- somatist — a psychiatrist who considers all mental illnesses to have physical origins.
- some day — on an unspecified date in the future
- somedeal — somewhat.
- somegate — in some manner
- somewhat — in some measure or degree; to some extent: not angry, just somewhat disturbed.
- somniate — to dream