8-letter words containing s, e, m, i, c
- cosmesis — an aesthetic covering on a prosthesis to make it look more natural
- cosmetic — Cosmetics are substances such as lipstick or powder, which people put on their face to make themselves look more attractive.
- cremains — A dead person's cremains are their remains after their body has been cremated.
- crimpers — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
- crummies — a cow with crooked horns.
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- demi-sec — (of wine, esp champagne) medium-sweet
- dioecism — (especially of plants) having the male and female organs in separate and distinct individuals; having separate sexes.
- disclame — (obsolete) To disclaim; to expel.
- docetism — an early Christian doctrine that the sufferings of Christ were apparent and not real and that after the crucifixion he appeared in a spiritual body.
- domestic — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- dysmelic — having or relating to dysmelia
- empirics — Plural form of empiric.
- endemics — Plural form of endemic.
- escapism — The tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy.
- ethicism — devotion to ethical principles
- excimers — Plural form of excimer.
- exclaims — Plural form of exclaim.
- exorcism — The expulsion or attempted expulsion of an evil spirit from a person or place.
- genomics — the study of genomes.
- graecism — the spirit of Greek thought, art, etc.
- grimaces — Make a grimace.
- hemisect — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- homesick — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- incomers — Plural form of incomer.
- ischemia — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- ischemic — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- isocheim — a line on a map connecting points that have the same mean winter temperature.
- isocryme — a line on a map connecting points that have the same temperature during the coldest period of a year
- isomeric — of, relating to, or displaying isomerism.
- keramics — ceramics.
- lemnisci — Plural form of lemniscus.
- macarise — congratulate
- machines — Plural form of machine.
- macleish — Archibald, 1892–1982, U.S. poet and dramatist.
- majestic — characterized by or possessing majesty; of lofty dignity or imposing aspect; stately; grand: the majestic Alps.
- matrices — something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops: The Greco-Roman world was the matrix for Western civilization.
- medicals — Plural form of medical.
- melodics — the branch of musical science concerned with the pitch and succession of tones.
- memetics — (philosophy) /me-met'iks/ The study of memes. As of mid-1993, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first steps toward at least statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and others. Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the new information ecologies in which memes live and replicate.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- meristic — of, relating to, or divided into segments or somites.
- merycism — a condition in which undigested food is regurgitated
- mesaraic — (anatomy) mesenteric.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- mesmeric — produced by mesmerism; hypnotic.
- mesozoic — noting or pertaining to an era occurring between 230 and 65 million years ago, characterized by the appearance of flowering plants and by the appearance and extinction of dinosaurs.
- messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.