8-letter words containing m, r, s, a
- sim card — Subscriber Identity/Identification Module: a removable card inside a cell phone that stores data unique to the user, as an identification number, passwords, phone numbers, and messages.
- sitkamer — a sitting room; lounge
- sitzmark — a sunken area in the snow marking a backward fall of a skier.
- skiagram — a picture made by outlining and shading a subject's shadow.
- slalomer — a person who slaloms
- smarmily — excessively or unctuously flattering, ingratiating, servile, etc.: the emcee with the smarmy welcome.
- smartass — smart ass.
- smartdrv — Smartdrive
- smartest — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- 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.
- smyrnean — of or relating to Smyrna, Turkey.
- solarism — the interpretation of myths by reference to the sun, especially such interpretation carried to an extreme.
- solarium — a glass-enclosed room, porch, or the like, exposed to the sun's rays, as at a seaside hotel or for convalescents in a hospital.
- sonarman — a petty officer who operates and maintains sonar.
- sonogram — the visual image produced by reflected sound waves in a diagnostic ultrasound examination.
- soralium — (in a lichen) a group of soredia.
- spanworm — measuringworm.
- spearman — a person who is armed with or uses a spear.
- specmark — (benchmark) The average of a set of floating-point and integer SPEC benchmark results. While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with the industry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* defined an average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the 1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons: With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92) benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward floating-point. Customers' workloads are different, some integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed. Current processors have developed their strengths in a more diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some more floating-point performance) than in 1989. Some SPECmark results are available here. See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92, SPECrate_fp92.
- spermary — an organ in which spermatozoa are generated; testis.
- stamford — a city in SW Connecticut.
- star map — star chart.
- staumrel — stupid; half-witted.
- stemware — glass or crystal vessels, especially for beverages and desserts, having rounded bowls mounted on footed stems.
- stenmark — Ingemar ("Silent Swede") born 1956, Swedish Alpine skier.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- stramash — an uproar; disturbance.
- strawman — a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
- streamer — something that streams: streamers of flame.
- striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter in the brain which controls movement and balance
- stromata — Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
- sudarium — (in ancient Rome) a cloth, usually of linen, for wiping the face; handkerchief.
- sumatran — a large island in the W part of Indonesia. 164,147 sq. mi. (425,141 sq. km).
- sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
- supermac — A general-purpose macro language, embeddable in existing languages as a run-time library.
- superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supermax — having or relating to the very highest levels of security
- surf mat — a small inflatable rubber mattress used to ride on waves
- suriname — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- surnames — the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name.
- swimwear — clothing designed to be worn for swimming or at a beach.
- swingarm — the main part of the rear suspension on a motorcycle
- swordman — swordsman.
- sycamore — Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.
- sympatry — the occurrence of sympatric organisms
- tamarisk — any Old World tropical plant of the genus Tamarix, especially T. gallica, an ornamental Mediterranean shrub or small tree having slender, feathery branches.
- tamper's — a person or thing that tamps.
- tantrism — (italics) Hinduism. any of several books of esoteric doctrine regarding rituals, disciplines, meditation, etc., composed in the form of dialogues between Shiva and his Shakti; Agama.