8-letter words containing m, i, l, o, s
- plasmoid — a section of a plasma having a characteristic shape
- plimsole — a canvas shoe with a rubber sole; gym shoe; sneaker.
- plimsoll — load-line mark.
- polemics — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- polemist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
- polonism — a Polish characteristic or sense of identity
- populism — the political philosophy of the People's party.
- postmill — a windmill with machinery mounted on a frame that turns in its entirety to face the wind.
- royalism — the principles of royal government; monarchism
- sailroom — the space on a ship for storing sails
- salmonid — belonging or pertaining to the family Salmonidae, including the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes.
- scholium — Often, scholia. an explanatory note or comment. an ancient annotation upon a passage in a Greek or Latin text.
- sciolism — superficial knowledge.
- scolioma — an abnormal curving of the spine
- semibold — denoting a weight of typeface between medium and bold face
- semillon — a variety of white grape used in winemaking, especially in France in the Sauternes district of Bordeaux.
- seminole — a member of any of several groupings of North American Indians comprising emigrants from the Creek Confederacy territories to Florida or their descendants in Florida and Oklahoma, especially the culturally conservative present-day Florida Indians.
- 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.
- shloshim — the period of thirty days' deep mourning following a death
- silkworm — the larva of the Chinese silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which spins a cocoon of commercially valuable silk.
- simoleon — a dollar.
- slimdown — instance of an organization cutting staff
- slipform — a moveable mould for building large concrete structures such as roads, towers and bridges
- smilodon — any of several saber-toothed cats of the extinct genus Smilodon, that ranged from California through most of South America during the Pleistocene Epoch and had upper canine teeth more than 6 inches (15 cm) long.
- 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.
- solecism — a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage, as unflammable and they was.
- solidism — the belief that diseases spring from damage to solid parts of the body
- solimena — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1657–1747, Italian painter.
- solimoes — Brazilian name of the Amazon from its junction with the Río Negro to the border of Peru.
- 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.
- soralium — (in a lichen) a group of soredia.
- soy milk — liquid obtained from soybeans
- sump oil — the waste oil from engines
- symbolic — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).
- toilsome — characterized by or involving toil; laborious or fatiguing.
- totalism — totalitarianism.
- troilism — sexual activity involving three people
- turmoils — a state of great commotion, confusion, or disturbance; tumult; agitation; disquiet: mental turmoil caused by difficult decisions.
- vocalism — Phonetics. a vowel, diphthong, triphthong, or vowel quality, as in a syllable. the system of vowels of a language.
- voltaism — the branch of electrical science that deals with the production of electricity or electric currents by chemical action.
- volumist — an author or someone who produces a volume
- wailsome — wailful.