8-letter words containing m, e, n, s
- somniate — to dream
- sondheim — Stephen (Joshua) born 1930, U.S. composer and lyricist.
- sortment — an assortment or classification
- spaceman — an astronaut.
- spademan — a man who works with spade
- spearman — a person who is armed with or uses a spear.
- specimen — a part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass or number; a typical animal, plant, mineral, part, etc.
- spellman — Francis Joseph, Cardinal, 1889–1967, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: archbishop of New York 1939–67.
- spermine — a polyamine, H 2 N(CH 2) 3 NH(CH 2) 4 NH(CH 2) 3 NH 2 , formed from spermidine and occurring in all cells, especially prevalent in semen, sputum, pancreatic tissue, and certain yeasts.
- splenium — a structure in the brain
- spumante — Italian. any sparkling wine.
- steaming — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- steelman — a person engaged in the steelmaking business.
- steinman — David Barnard, 1886–1960, U.S. civil engineer: specialist in bridge design and construction.
- stemming — Skiing. the act or instance of a skier pushing the heel of one or both skis outward so that the heels are far apart, as in making certain turns or slowing down.
- stenmark — Ingemar ("Silent Swede") born 1956, Swedish Alpine skier.
- stoneham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- stoneman — a stonecutter or stoneworker.
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- sub-menu — a list of commands within the main menu of a computer application
- suleiman — ("the Magnificent") 1495?–1566, sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1520–66.
- sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
- summoned — to call upon to do something specified.
- summoner — to call upon to do something specified.
- superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- suriname — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- surnames — the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name.
- swamphen — any of several large Old World gallinules varying from purple to white, all possibly belonging to the single species Porphyrio porphyrio.
- sweetman — (in the Caribbean) a man kept by a woman
- sycamine — a tree mentioned in the New Testament, probably the black mulberry.
- symantec — (company) Software manufacturer of utility and development applications for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Products include ACT!, Norton Utilities, Norton AntiVirus, Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh, Symantec Cafe.
- syndrome — Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
- talesman — a person summoned as one of the tales.
- tameness — changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.
- tenesmus — a straining to urinate or defecate, without the ability to do so.
- terminus — the end or extremity of anything.
- tidesman — a Customs official at a port
- timespan — a span of time; time frame.
- tokenism — the practice or policy of making no more than a token effort or gesture, as in offering opportunities to minorities equal to those of the majority.
- transume — to make an official transcription of
- trewsman — a Highlander
- unamused — pleasurably entertained, occupied, or diverted.
- unbeseem — to not suit or befit (someone)
- unmasked — to strip a mask or disguise from.
- unmissed — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- unseemly — not seemly; not in keeping with established standards of taste or proper form; unbecoming or indecorous in appearance, speech, conduct, etc.: an unseemly act; unseemly behavior.
- unseldom — regularly
- unsmoked — (of meat, fish, etc) not hung over burning wood to preserve or flavour it
- unsolemn — unceremonious
- unsummed — not calculated or summed; uncounted or summed up