8-letter words containing m, i, n, s
- panislam — all of Islam or the Muslim world
- pashmina — a fabric or garment made from pashm, especially a shawl, wrap, or scarf.
- peronism — the principles or policies of Juan Perón.
- 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.
- pi meson — pion.
- picumnus — one of two ancient Roman fertility gods.
- pilumnus — one of two ancient gods of fertility.
- polonism — a Polish characteristic or sense of identity
- primness — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- reinsman — a person who rides or drives horses, especially a skillful one, as a jockey or harness driver.
- resuming — to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue: to resume a journey.
- riminess — the state or quality of being rimy
- rimstone — a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a cavern.
- romanism — Roman Catholicism.
- romanist — Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- saintism — the practices and principles of the Puritans
- salmonid — belonging or pertaining to the family Salmonidae, including the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes.
- samnitis — a poisonous plant
- sampling — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- satanism — the worship of Satan or the powers of evil.
- saxonism — an English word or idiom of Anglo-Saxon rather than foreign, as Latin or French, origin.
- scamming — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- scamping — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- scheming — given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.
- scrinium — a cylindrical container used in ancient Rome to hold papyrus rolls.
- sediment — the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs.
- selenium — a nonmetallic element chemically resembling sulfur and tellurium, occurring in several allotropic forms, as crystalline and amorphous, and having an electrical resistance that varies under the influence of light. Symbol: Se; atomic weight: 78.96; atomic number: 34; specific gravity: (gray) 4.80 at 25°C, (red) 4.50 at 25°C.
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semillon — a variety of white grape used in winemaking, especially in France in the Sauternes district of Bordeaux.
- semilune — a half-moon shape
- seminary — a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
- seminate — disseminated; scattered; strewn
- 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.
- seminoma — a malignant tumour of the testicle
- seminude — naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
- semiopen — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- semitone — a pitch interval halfway between two whole tones.
- semolina — a granular, milled product of durum wheat, consisting almost entirely of endosperm particles, used chiefly in the making of pasta.
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- sepiment — a hedge or fence that acts as a dividing line
- sermonic — of, relating to, or resembling a sermon.
- shamanic — (especially among certain tribal peoples) a person who acts as intermediary between the natural and supernatural worlds, using magic to cure illness, foretell the future, control spiritual forces, etc.
- shamiana — a flat tent, canopy, or marquee used for parties or functions in India and often made of striped calico
- shamisen — a Japanese plucked stringed instrument with a long neck, an unfretted fingerboard, and a rectangular soundbox
- shamming — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- shamokin — a borough in E Pennsylvania.
- shimming — a thin slip or wedge of metal, wood, etc., for driving into crevices, as between machine parts to compensate for wear, or beneath bedplates, large stones, etc., to level them.
- shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- shireman — a sheriff