8-letter words containing m, i, l, s
- semilune — a half-moon shape
- semimild — somewhat mild; quite mild
- 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
- semiwild — not fully domesticated; partially tamed or cultivated; having some characteristics of the wild
- semiwild — not fully domesticated; partially tamed or cultivated; having some characteristics of the wild
- semolina — a granular, milled product of durum wheat, consisting almost entirely of endosperm particles, used chiefly in the making of pasta.
- semplice — to be performed in a simple manner
- septimal — of or based on the number seven.
- shlemiel — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
- shlimazl — schlimazel.
- shloshim — the period of thirty days' deep mourning following a death
- silicium — silicon.
- silkworm — the larva of the Chinese silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which spins a cocoon of commercially valuable silk.
- silliman — Benjamin, 1779–1864, U.S. scientist and educator.
- silphium — an American flowering wild plant of the family Asteraceae
- similize — to liken or compare
- simoleon — a dollar.
- simples! — an expression used to suggest that something can be done or understood with no difficulty
- simplest — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- simplify — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- simplism — exaggerated simplicity, as in concentrating on a single aspect or factor of a problem or situation while disregarding others; oversimplification: The senator is given to simplism in dealing with international issues.
- simplist — a herbalist
- simpulum — an ancient dipper having the rim of the bowl at right angles to the handle.
- simula i — (language) SIMUlation LAnguage. An extension to ALGOL 60 for the Univac 1107 designed in 1962 by Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl and implemented in 1964. SIMULA I was designed for discrete simulation. It introduced the record class, leading the way to data abstraction and object-oriented programming languages like Smalltalk. It also featured coroutines. SIMULA's philosophy was the result of addressing the problems of describing complex systems for the purpose of simulating them. This philosophy proved to be applicable for describing complex systems generally (not just for simulation) and so SIMULA is a general-purpose object-oriented application programming language which also has very good discrete event simulation capability. Virtually all OOP products are derived in some manner from SIMULA. For a description of the evolution of SIMULA and therefore the fundamental concepts of OOP, see Dahl and Nygaard in ["History of Programming Languages". Ed. R. W. Wexelblat. Addison-Wesley, 1981].
- simulant — simulating; feigning; imitating.
- simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- simulium — a blood-sucking, tropical fly of the genus Simulium
- skimpily — lacking in size, fullness, etc.; scanty: a skimpy hem; a skimpy dinner.
- slamming — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- slimdown — instance of an organization cutting staff
- slimline — slim in appearance.
- slimming — slender, as in girth or form; slight in build or structure.
- slimmish — rather slim
- slipform — a moveable mould for building large concrete structures such as roads, towers and bridges
- slumming — Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- slumping — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- smallish — rather small.
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- smaltite — a mineral, originally thought to have been a diarsenide of cobalt, CoAs 2 , but which is actually a skutterudite rich in cobalt.
- smarmily — excessively or unctuously flattering, ingratiating, servile, etc.: the emcee with the smarmy welcome.
- smellies — pleasant-smelling products such as perfumes, body lotions, bath salts, etc
- smelting — to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
- smileful — full of smiles
- 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