8-letter words containing m, i, n, s
- sidesman — a man elected to help the parish church warden
- silliman — Benjamin, 1779–1864, U.S. scientist and educator.
- simazine — a colorless crystalline selective herbicide, C 7 H 1 2 ClN 5 , used for season-long weed control in corn and other crops.
- simoleon — a dollar.
- simoniac — a person who practices simony.
- simonize — to shine or polish to a high sheen, especially with wax: to simonize an automobile.
- simonson — Lee, 1888–1967, U.S. set designer.
- simulant — simulating; feigning; imitating.
- sinapism — mustard plaster.
- sinicism — something characteristic of or peculiar to the Chinese; a Chinese method, custom, or usage.
- sismondi — Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de [zhahn sharl ley-aw-nar see-mawnd duh] /ʒɑ̃ ʃarl leɪ ɔˈnar siˈmɔ̃d də/ (Show IPA), 1773–1842, Swiss historian and economist.
- skimming — an act or instance of skimming.
- skyrmion — a particle consisting of a magnetic field surrounding a group of atoms
- 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.
- 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.
- smacking — smart, brisk, or strong, as a breeze.
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- smashing — of, relating to, or constituting a great success: That composer has written many smash tunes.
- smelting — to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
- smidgeon — a very small amount: a smidgen of jam for your toast.
- 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.
- smirking — to smile in an affected, smug, or offensively familiar way.
- smirting — the activity of flirting between smokers who are smoking cigarettes outside a no-smoking office, pub, etc
- smishing — the practice of using fraudulent text messages to extract financial data from users for purposes of identity theft
- smithing — a worker in metal.
- smithson — James, 1765–1829, English chemist and mineralogist.
- smocking — a loose, lightweight overgarment worn to protect the clothing while working.
- smogging — smoke or other atmospheric pollutants combined with fog in an unhealthy or irritating mixture.
- smudging — a dirty mark or smear.
- smurfing — the activity of using a specially designed computer program to attack a computer network by flooding it with messages, thereby rendering it inoperable
- snobbism — condescending, patronizing, or socially exclusive; snobbish.
- solimena — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1657–1747, Italian painter.
- 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.
- somniate — to dream
- somnific — causing sleep; soporific; somniferous.
- sondheim — Stephen (Joshua) born 1930, U.S. composer and lyricist.
- spamming — (lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively): Install spam blocker software and keep your email spam filters updated to protect your accounts from unsolicited spam.
- specimen — a part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass or number; a typical animal, plant, mineral, part, etc.
- 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.
- spimming — a type of spam that is sent by means of instant messaging.
- splenium — a structure in the brain
- staminal — of or relating to stamina or endurance.
- stamini- — stamen
- stasimon — (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode, especially in tragedy, divided into strophe and antistrophe: usually alternating with the epeisodion and, in the final ode, preceding the exodos.
- steaming — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.