8-letter words containing s, a, i, m, r
- mistrace — to trace incorrectly
- mistrack — To track incorrectly.
- mistrain — to train or guide incorrectly
- mistrals — Plural form of mistral.
- mistreat — to treat badly or abusively.
- mistrial — a trial terminated without conclusion on the merits of the case because of some error in the proceedings.
- monastir — Bitola
- moraines — Plural form of moraine.
- moralise — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- moralism — the habit of moralizing.
- moralist — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- muralism — an artistic movement identified chiefly with the Mexican painters José Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Siqueiros and exemplified by their grand-scale, narrative murals on humanitarian, social, and political themes.
- muralist — an artist who paints murals, especially an artist associated with muralism.
- murrains — Plural form of murrain.
- mushaira — A poetic symposium in Pakistan or North India at which poets gather to perform their works, traditionally ghazals.
- naderism — the philosophy and beliefs of consumerism and environmentalism preached by Ralph Nader
- naturism — a person who appreciates the beauty and benefits of nature.
- organism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- orgasmic — the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation.
- parosmia — a disorder of the sense of smell, especially the perception of odors that are not present.
- partyism — adherence to a political party or organization.
- pastrami — a brisket of beef that has been cured in a mixture of garlic, peppercorns, sugar, coriander seeds, etc., then smoked before cooking.
- 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.
- prosaism — prosaic character or style.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- romanism — Roman Catholicism.
- romanist — Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- rosarium — a rose garden.
- royalism — the principles of royal government; monarchism
- ruralism — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- sailroom — the space on a ship for storing sails
- samarium — a rare-earth metallic element discovered in samarskite. Symbol: Sm; atomic weight: 150.35; atomic number: 62; specific gravity: 7.49.
- samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
- samsaric — of or relating to samsara
- sapremia — blood poisoning caused by the toxins produced by bacterial putrefaction, as in gangrene.
- sarmatia — the ancient name of a region in E Europe, between the Vistula and the Volga.
- sarmatic — of or relating to Sarmatia or its inhabitants
- scimitar — a curved, single-edged sword of Asian, especially Eastern origin.
- semiarch — a half arch.
- semiarid — characterized by very little annual rainfall, usually from 10 to 20 inches (25 to 50 cm): the struggle to raise vegetables in semiarid regions.