8-letter words containing m, r, s
- cronyism — If you accuse someone in authority of cronyism, you mean that they use their power or authority to get jobs for their friends.
- crossarm — a horizontal bar or arm
- crossman — Richard (Howard Stafford). 1907–74, British Labour politician. His diaries, published posthumously as the Crossman Papers (1975), revealed details of cabinet discussions
- crumbles — Plural form of crumble.
- crummies — a cow with crooked horns.
- crumpets — Plural form of crumpet.
- crumples — to press or crush into irregular folds or into a compact mass; bend out of shape; rumple; wrinkle.
- cumbrous — cumbersome
- customer — You can use customer in expressions such as a cool customer or a tough customer to indicate what someone's behaviour or character is like.
- cutworms — Plural form of cutworm.
- damagers — Plural form of damager.
- damrosch — Walter (Johannes)1862-1950; U.S. conductor & composer, born in Germany
- darkmans — night-time
- darksome — dark or darkish
- decorums — Plural form of decorum.
- deemster — the title of one of the two justices in the Isle of Man
- defamers — Plural form of defamer.
- demerits — Plural form of demerit.
- demersal — living or occurring on the bottom of a sea or a lake
- deminers — Plural form of deminer.
- demireps — Plural form of demirep.
- demister — A demister is the same as a defogger.
- dempster — Arthur Jeffrey, 1886–1950, U.S. physicist.
- diagrams — Plural form of diagram.
- dimerise — Alternative spelling of dimerize.
- dimerous — consisting of or divided into two parts.
- dioramas — Plural form of diorama.
- disarmed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarm.
- disarmer — A person who advocates or campaigns for the withdrawal of nuclear weapons.
- dispermy — the fertilization of an ovum by two spermatozoa.
- doldrums — A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks – so called by sailors.
- doomster — a doomsayer.
- doormats — Plural form of doormat.
- dormeuse — mobcap.
- dormouse — any small, furry-tailed, Old World rodent of the family Gliridae, resembling small squirrels in appearance and habits.
- drachmas — Plural form of drachma.
- dragsman — a person who drives a carriage or drag
- dramshop — bar; barroom; saloon.
- dreamers — Plural form of dreamer.
- dromonds — Plural form of dromond.
- drscheme — (Scheme) A popular Scheme implementation from the PLT team at Rice University.
- drudgism — the work of a drudge
- druidism — the religion or rites of the Druids.
- drum set — kit consisting of several drums
- drumfish — drum1 (def 11).
- drumlins — Plural form of drumlin.
- drummers — Plural form of drummer.
- drumskin — drumhead (def 1).
- dumfries — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- dumpster — a large metal bin for refuse designed to be hoisted onto a specially equipped truck for emptying or hauling away.