8-letter words containing m, s, i
- plimsole — a canvas shoe with a rubber sole; gym shoe; sneaker.
- plimsoll — load-line mark.
- plumbism — lead poisoning (def 1b).
- plumpish — somewhat plump; tending to plumpness.
- pochismo — an English word or expression borrowed into Spanish; a Spanish word showing U.S. influence.
- polemics — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- polemist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
- polonism — a Polish characteristic or sense of identity
- populism — the political philosophy of the People's party.
- posticum — epinaos.
- postmill — a windmill with machinery mounted on a frame that turns in its entirety to face the wind.
- premiers — the winners of a premiership
- premised — Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- premises — Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- priapism — Pathology. continuous, usually nonsexual erection of the penis, especially due to disease.
- priggism — priggish character or ideas; priggishness.
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primness — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- 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).
- 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.
- psalmist — an author of psalms.
- psammite — any sandstone.
- psellism — Pathology. stuttering; stammering.
- psephism — (in ancient Athens) a proposition adopted by a majority vote in the public assembly
- psychism — the belief in a universal soul; the attributing of souls to inanimate objects or phenomena
- psyllium — fleawort.
- ptyalism — excessive secretion of saliva.
- pugilism — the art or practice of fighting with the fists; boxing.
- puppyism — impudence
- puseyism — Tractarianism.
- pygmyish — resembling a pygmy
- pygmyism — the state of being a pygmy
- 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.
- qualmish — tending to have, or having, qualms.
- quietism — a form of religious mysticism taught by Molinos, a Spanish priest, in the latter part of the 17th century, requiring extinction of the will, withdrawal from worldly interests, and passive meditation on God and divine things; Molinism.
- 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.
- 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.
- ramses i — 1324?–1258 b.c, king of ancient Egypt.
- 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.
- red mist — a feeling of extreme anger that clouds one's judgment temporarily
- regalism — the principle that royalty have the highest power, esp when referring to church affairs
- reimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.