8-letter words containing s, e, m, n
- neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
- nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
- nepotism — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- nerdgasm — a feeling of intense excitement felt by someone considered to be a nerd, esp. when caused by something relating to his or her leisure interests such as a new piece of technology, computer game, science fiction film, etc.
- neuromas — Plural form of neuroma.
- newsroom — a room in the offices of a newspaper, news service, or broadcasting organization in which the news is processed.
- nimblest — Superlative form of nimble.
- nimbuses — Plural form of nimbus.
- no-mates — designating a person with no friends
- nominees — Plural form of nominee.
- normless — a standard, model, or pattern.
- norseman — Northman.
- novelism — an innovative idea or concept; innovation; novelty
- numbness — deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move: fingers numb with cold.
- numerals — Plural form of numeral.
- numerics — The field of numerically-controlled engineering.
- numerous — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
- nutmeats — the kernel of a nut, usually edible.
- nymphets — a young nymph.
- oddments — an odd article, bit, remnant, or the like.
- oneirism — (rare) Dream-like experiences or qualities; dreaminess.
- onstream — Being produced.
- oversman — an overseer
- paeanism — the show of a paean
- parmesan — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
- peronism — the principles or policies of Juan Perón.
- phonemes — any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, and different for each language, considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented. They are arrived at for any given language by determining which differences in sound function to indicate a difference in meaning, so that in English the difference in sound and meaning between pit and bit is taken to indicate the existence of different labial phonemes, while the difference in sound between the unaspirated p of spun and the aspirated p of pun, since it is never the only distinguishing feature between two different words, is not taken as ground for setting up two different p phonemes in English. Compare distinctive feature (def 1).
- phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
- pi meson — pion.
- pleonasm — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pressman — a person who operates or has charge of a printing press.
- primness — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- proseman — a writer of prose
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- ransomer — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- reinsman — a person who rides or drives horses, especially a skillful one, as a jockey or harness driver.
- remnants — a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
- resuming — to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue: to resume a journey.
- resummon — to summon again
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- riminess — the state or quality of being rimy
- rimstone — a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a cavern.
- rosemont — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- salesman — a man who sells goods, services, etc.
- salmonet — a young salmon
- sameness — the state or quality of being the same; identity; uniformity.
- san remo — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Riviera: resort.
- santarem — a city in N Brazil, on the Amazon River.
- scheming — given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.
- seamount — a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.