8-letter words containing m, y, s, i
- nimbyism — The ideology of a nimby, often used pejoratively.
- ninnyism — Predisposition to act like a ninny.
- partyism — adherence to a political party or organization.
- peyotism — a religion of native American Indians that incorporates the ritual use of peyote
- primrosy — characteristic of, or resembling, a primrose (esp in colour)
- psychism — the belief in a universal soul; the attributing of souls to inanimate objects or phenomena
- psyllium — fleawort.
- ptyalism — excessive secretion of saliva.
- 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.
- rowdyism — rough, disorderly behavior.
- royalism — the principles of royal government; monarchism
- scrimply — sparingly
- scummily — in a scummy manner
- seminary — a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
- shimmery — shimmering; shining softly.
- simplify — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- simsbury — a town in central Connecticut.
- skimpily — lacking in size, fullness, etc.; scanty: a skimpy hem; a skimpy dinner.
- skyrmion — a particle consisting of a magnetic field surrounding a group of atoms
- smarmily — excessively or unctuously flattering, ingratiating, servile, etc.: the emcee with the smarmy welcome.
- smithery — the work, craft, or workshop of a smith.
- soy milk — liquid obtained from soybeans
- sphygmic — of or relating to the pulse.
- stumpily — in a stumpy manner
- stymying — Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
- summitry — the act or practice of holding a summit meeting, especially to conduct diplomatic negotiations.
- swimmily — tearfully
- sybotism — the keeping of swine
- sycamine — a tree mentioned in the New Testament, probably the black mulberry.
- syconium — a multiple fruit developed from a hollow fleshy receptacle containing numerous flowers, as in the fig.
- symbiont — an organism living in a state of symbiosis.
- symbiote — an organism living in a state of symbiosis.
- symbolic — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).
- symphile — an insect or other organism that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants and termites, and is fed and reared by the inmates
- sympodia — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
- sysadmin — a computer system administrator
- systemic — of or relating to a system.
- thymosin — a hormone, produced by the thymus gland, that promotes the development of T cells from stem cells.
- toadyism — an obsequious flatterer; sycophant.
- yahooism — The behaviour or attitudes of yahoos; ignorant boorishness.
- yamasaki — Minoru [mi-nawr-oo,, -nohr-] /mɪˈnɔr u,, -ˈnoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1912–86, U.S. architect.
- yosemite — a valley in E California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains: a part of Yosemite National Park. 7 miles (11 km) long.
- yummiest — Superlative form of yummy.