8-letter words containing m, e, n, s, h
- phonemes — any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, and different for each language, considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented. They are arrived at for any given language by determining which differences in sound function to indicate a difference in meaning, so that in English the difference in sound and meaning between pit and bit is taken to indicate the existence of different labial phonemes, while the difference in sound between the unaspirated p of spun and the aspirated p of pun, since it is never the only distinguishing feature between two different words, is not taken as ground for setting up two different p phonemes in English. Compare distinctive feature (def 1).
- phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
- 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.
- scheming — given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.
- shame on — shame should be felt by; this is shameful of
- shamisen — a Japanese plucked stringed instrument with a long neck, an unfretted fingerboard, and a rectangular soundbox
- shareman — a member of a fishing-boat crew who shares profits with the boat's owner in lieu of wages
- shearman — a person whose occupation it is to trim or shear cloth
- sheepman — a person engaged in the tending or breeding of sheep, especially the owner of a sheep ranch.
- shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- shireman — a sheriff
- shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
- shymkent — a city in S Kazakhstan; a major railway junction. Pop: 469 000 (2005 est)
- smoothen — to make or become smooth
- somewhen — sometime.
- sondheim — Stephen (Joshua) born 1930, U.S. composer and lyricist.
- stoneham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- swamphen — any of several large Old World gallinules varying from purple to white, all possibly belonging to the single species Porphyrio porphyrio.
- welshman — a native or inhabitant of Wales.