8-letter words containing m, s, i
- famished — extremely hungry: to be famished after a hike; famished, homeless multitudes.
- famishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of famish.
- fanatism — Excessive intolerance of opposing views.
- faradism — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
- fascinum — An ivory phallus used in certain ancient erotic rites.
- fatalism — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- feminise — Alternative spelling of feminize.
- feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- feminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- fermions — Plural form of fermion.
- fibromas — Plural form of fibroma.
- fidelism — Castroism.
- fiefdoms — the estate or domain of a feudal lord.
- figments — Plural form of figment.
- film set — to photocompose.
- filmless — Without film.
- filmstar — Alternative spelling of film star.
- finalism — the doctrine or belief that all events are determined by their purposes or goals.
- finitism — the view that only those entities may be admitted to mathematics that can be constructed in a finite number of steps, and only those propositions entertained whose truth can be proved in a finite number of steps
- firearms — Plural form of firearm.
- firmless — unstable, unsteady, not firmly fixed
- firmness — not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- fishmeal — dried fish ground for use as fertilizer, animal feed, or an ingredient in other foods.
- fishworm — an earthworm.
- fisnomie — an archaic spelling of physiognomy
- fistbump — A fist bump.
- fistmele — (archery) A traditional unit of distance equal to the width of a clenched fist with the thumb extended (approx. 6\u00bd inches or 16\u00bd centimetres).
- fitments — Plural form of fitment.
- fivesome — A group of five persons or things.
- flamings — Plural form of flaming.
- flimsier — Comparative form of flimsy.
- flimsily — In a flimsy manner.
- foamiest — Superlative form of foamy.
- foilsman — a person who fences with a foil.
- framings — Plural form of framing.
- fremitus — palpable vibration, as of the walls of the chest.
- frumpish — a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
- fumosity — the quality or state of being fumous or fumy
- fusarium — any fungus of the genus Fusarium, occurring primarily in temperate regions and causing a variety of diseases in plants and animals, producing in humans a loss of fingernails and sometimes blindness.
- fusiform — spindle-shaped; rounded and tapering from the middle toward each end, as some roots.
- futurism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of the fine arts developed originally by a group of Italian artists about 1910 in which forms derived chiefly from cubism were used to represent rapid movement and dynamic motion.
- galenism — the medical system or principles of Galen.
- gambusia — any fish of the genus Gambusia, comprising small livebearers that feed on aquatic insect larvae and are used to control mosquitoes.
- gaminess — the taste or odor of game, especially when slightly tainted.
- gas main — a large pipe for conducting and distributing gas to lesser pipes or ducts, especially such a pipe carrying and distributing household gas beneath the streets of a town or city.
- gasiform — having the form of gas; gaseous.
- gaullism — a political movement in France led by Charles de Gaulle.
- geminids — a collection of meteors making up a meteor shower (Gem·inid me·teor show·er) visible around December 13, having its apparent origin in the constellation Gemini.
- geminous — found in pairs
- genomics — the study of genomes.