8-letter words containing m, i, s, t, a
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- psalmist — an author of psalms.
- psammite — any sandstone.
- ptyalism — excessive secretion of saliva.
- romanist — Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- saintism — the practices and principles of the Puritans
- samizdat — a clandestine publishing system within the Soviet Union, by which forbidden or unpublishable literature was reproduced and circulated privately.
- samnitis — a poisonous plant
- sarmatia — the ancient name of a region in E Europe, between the Vistula and the Volga.
- sarmatic — of or relating to Sarmatia or its inhabitants
- satanism — the worship of Satan or the powers of evil.
- scimitar — a curved, single-edged sword of Asian, especially Eastern origin.
- sea mist — a mist over or from the sea.
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semimatt — (of a surface) midway between matt and gloss
- seminate — disseminated; scattered; strewn
- septimal — of or based on the number seven.
- seriatim — in a series; one after another in regular order
- shaktism — the worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva.
- shipmate — a person who serves with another on the same vessel.
- sigmatic — characterized by a Greek letter sigma or a Roman S added to a word or stem
- simulant — simulating; feigning; imitating.
- simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- site map — A site map is a plan of a website showing what is on it and providing links to the different sections.
- sitkamer — a sitting room; lounge
- sitzmark — a sunken area in the snow marking a backward fall of a skier.
- 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.
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- smartish — rather smart; fairly intelligent or quick-witted: smartish answers on a quiz.
- smash it — to execute a task exceptionally well
- solatium — something given in compensation for inconvenience, loss, injury, or the like; recompense.
- somatism — a psychiatrist who considers all mental illnesses to have physical origins.
- somatist — a psychiatrist who considers all mental illnesses to have physical origins.
- somniate — to dream
- 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.
- steinman — David Barnard, 1886–1960, U.S. civil engineer: specialist in bridge design and construction.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- stickman — croupier (def 1).
- stigmata — a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation.
- stillman — a man who is employed to operate a still
- stomatic — pertaining to the mouth.
- striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter in the brain which controls movement and balance
- tachisme — action painting (def 1).
- talisman — a stone, ring, or other object, engraved with figures or characters supposed to possess occult powers and worn as an amulet or charm.
- tamarisk — any Old World tropical plant of the genus Tamarix, especially T. gallica, an ornamental Mediterranean shrub or small tree having slender, feathery branches.
- tameside — a unitary authority of NW England, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 213 400 (2003 est). Area: 103 sq km (40 sq miles)