8-letter words containing m, o, s, p
- polysome — a complex of ribosomes strung along a single strand of messenger RNA that translates the genetic information coded in the messenger RNA during protein synthesis.
- polysomy — the state of being polysomic
- populism — the political philosophy of the People's party.
- postcomm — (in Britain) the Postal Services Commission, a body set up to look after the interests of postal service users
- postform — to remould or reshape plastic after reheating
- postgame — of, relating to, or happening in the period immediately following a sports game: Join us for the postgame wrap-up. Fans lost control in a postgame melee.
- posticum — epinaos.
- postmark — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- postmill — a windmill with machinery mounted on a frame that turns in its entirety to face the wind.
- premorse — having the end irregularly truncate, as if bitten or broken off.
- primrose — Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of.
- primrosy — characteristic of, or resembling, a primrose (esp in colour)
- prismoid — a solid having sides that are trapezoids and bases or ends that are parallel and similar but not congruent polygons. Compare prism (def 2).
- prodomos — an open vestibule, as a pronaos.
- programs — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- promisee — a person to whom a promise is made.
- promisor — a person who makes a promise.
- prosaism — prosaic character or style.
- proseman — a writer of prose
- prosomal — relating to a prosoma
- prosumer — a person who both consumes and produces a particular commodity
- psalmody — the act, practice, or art of setting psalms to music.
- pyrosome — a member of a genus, Pyrosoma, of colonial tunicates found in tropical open waters, the sole genus of the order Pyrosomida, which consists of brightly phosphorescent, translucent individuals united into a hollow tube closed at one end
- reimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- rollmops — a fillet of fresh herring rolled up on a pickle or onion and marinated
- rum shop — a tavern or shop selling liquor.
- scrumpox — a skin infection caused by the herpes virus which is spread among players in a scrum
- 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.
- shipworm — any of various wormlike marine bivalve mollusks that burrow into the timbers of ship, wharves, etc.
- showjump — to take part in a showjumping competition
- slipform — a moveable mould for building large concrete structures such as roads, towers and bridges
- smallpox — an acute, highly contagious, febrile disease, caused by the variola virus, and characterized by a pustular eruption that often leaves permanent pits or scars: eradicated worldwide by vaccination programs.
- smokepot — a pot or device for producing smoke or a vapour resembling smoke
- sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
- soupmeat — beef used for making soup stock.
- spanworm — measuringworm.
- spekboom — a South African shrub
- spermous — of the nature of or pertaining to sperm.
- sphygmo- — indicating the pulse
- stamp on — tread heavily on
- stompers — stamp (defs 1–3).
- sump oil — the waste oil from engines
- supermom — a mother who successfully manages a household and cares for her children while holding a job or being active in her community.
- symphony — Music. an elaborate instrumental composition in three or more movements, similar in form to a sonata but written for an orchestra and usually of far grander proportions and more varied elements. an instrumental passage occurring in a vocal composition, or between vocal movements in a composition. an instrumental piece, often in several movements, forming the overture to an opera or the like.
- symploce — the simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe.
- sympodia — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
- thompson — Benjamin, Count Rumford, 1753–1814, English physicist and diplomat, born in the U.S.
- tompkins — Daniel D. 1774–1825, U.S. politician and jurist: vice president of the U.S. 1817–25.
- topsmelt — a silversides, Atherinops affinis, of waters along the Pacific coast of North America: valued as a food fish.