8-letter words containing m, r, s, a
- partyism — adherence to a political party or organization.
- passmore — George. Born 1943, a British artist who is noted esp for his photomontages and performance works with Gilbert Proesch
- pastrami — a brisket of beef that has been cured in a mixture of garlic, peppercorns, sugar, coriander seeds, etc., then smoked before cooking.
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- permease — any of the proteins that mediate the transport of various molecules across biological membranes.
- 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.
- pressman — a person who operates or has charge of a printing press.
- prestamp — to stamp in advance
- priapism — Pathology. continuous, usually nonsexual erection of the penis, especially due to disease.
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- programs — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- prosaism — prosaic character or style.
- proseman — a writer of prose
- prosomal — relating to a prosoma
- pyramids — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- racemism — (of a compound) the state of being optically inactive and separable into two other substances of the same chemical composition as the original substance, one of which is dextrorotatory and the other levorotatory, as racemic acid.
- racemose — Botany. having the form of a raceme. arranged in racemes.
- racemous — racemose.
- raftsman — a person who manages or is employed on a raft.
- ram disk — (operating system, storage) A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off.
- ramis ii — Rapid Access Management Information System. A database from On-Line Software International.
- ramparts — Fortification. a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet. such an elevation together with the parapet.
- rampsman — a mugger; violent robber
- ramses i — 1324?–1258 b.c, king of ancient Egypt.
- ramsgate — a seaport in NE Kent, in SE England: resort.
- ramulose — having many small branches.
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- ransomer — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- rasmalai — an Indian dessert made from cheese, milk, and almonds
- rawmaish — foolish or exaggerated talk; nonsense
- realisms — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- rearmost — farthest in the rear; last.
- reassume — to take for granted or without proof: to assume that everyone wants peace. Synonyms: suppose, presuppose; postulate, posit.
- red mass — a votive Mass of the Holy Ghost said as a blessing for the legal profession.
- regalism — the principle that royalty have the highest power, esp when referring to church affairs
- reinsman — a person who rides or drives horses, especially a skillful one, as a jockey or harness driver.
- remaster — to make a new master tape or record from an old master tape, usually to improve the fidelity of an old recording.
- remnants — a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
- resample — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- romanism — Roman Catholicism.
- romanist — Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- romanovs — a member of the imperial dynasty of Russia that ruled from 1613 to 1917.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- rosamond — a feminine name: dim. Roz
- rosamund — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “horse” and “protection.”.
- rosarium — a rose garden.
- rosemary — an evergreen shrub, Rosmarinus officinalis, of the mint family, native to the Mediterranean region, having leathery, narrow leaves and pale-blue, bell-shaped flowers, used as a seasoning and in perfumery and medicine: a traditional symbol of remembrance.
- rosemead — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- royalism — the principles of royal government; monarchism