8-letter words containing m, a, s, o, r
- moralist — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- morasses — An area of muddy or boggy ground.
- mordants — Plural form of mordant.
- mortsafe — a heavy iron cage or grille placed over the grave of a newly deceased person in order to deter body snatchers
- mosasaur — any of several extinct carnivorous marine lizards from the Cretaceous Period, having the limbs modified into broad, webbed paddles.
- mutators — Plural form of mutator.
- neuromas — Plural form of neuroma.
- norseman — Northman.
- onstream — Being produced.
- 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.
- ostmarks — Plural form of ostmark.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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).
- san remo — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Riviera: resort.
- sandworm — any of several marine worms that live in sand.
- saramago — José [zhoo-ze] /ʒʊˈzɛ/ (Show IPA), 1922–2010, Portuguese journalist, playwright, and novelist: Nobel prize 1998.
- scarmoge — a skirmish or minor conflict
- scleroma — a tumorlike hardening of tissue.