8-letter words containing m, l, i, s
- 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
- spiculum — a small, needlelike body, part, process, or the like.
- splenium — a structure in the brain
- staminal — of or relating to stamina or endurance.
- stillman — a man who is employed to operate a still
- stimulus — something that incites to action or exertion or quickens action, feeling, thought, etc.: The approval of others is a potent stimulus.
- stumpily — in a stumpy manner
- subclaim — a claim that is part of a larger claim
- subilium — the broad, upper portion of either hipbone.
- sublimit — a limit on a subcategory
- suleiman — ("the Magnificent") 1495?–1566, sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1520–66.
- sump oil — the waste oil from engines
- swimmily — tearfully
- symbolic — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).
- symphile — an insect or other organism that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants and termites, and is fed and reared by the inmates
- talisman — a stone, ring, or other object, engraved with figures or characters supposed to possess occult powers and worn as an amulet or charm.
- timbales — a pair of single-headed, cylindrical drums joined by a frame and played with drumsticks, used, esp. originally, in Latin American dance music
- timeless — without beginning or end; eternal; everlasting.
- toilsome — characterized by or involving toil; laborious or fatiguing.
- totalism — totalitarianism.
- trialism — the belief that man consists of body, soul, and spirit
- troilism — sexual activity involving three people
- turmoils — a state of great commotion, confusion, or disturbance; tumult; agitation; disquiet: mental turmoil caused by difficult decisions.
- ultraism — extremism.
- virilism — a female disorder in which there is development of secondary male sexual characteristics, as hirsutism and lowered voice, caused by various conditions affecting hormone regulation.
- vitalism — the philosophical doctrine that the phenomena of life cannot be explained in purely mechanical terms because there is something immaterial which distinguishes living from inanimate matter
- 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.
- williams — a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter W.