8-letter words containing s, e, p, m, a
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- mesopeak — the level of maximum temperature in the mesophere, at an altitude of about 30 miles (48 km).
- messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- misparse — To parse incorrectly.
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misplead — To plead amiss or in a wrong manner; err in pleading.
- misshape — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
- misspace — to space out wrongly
- misspeak — Express oneself insufficiently clearly or accurately.
- mixtapes — Plural form of mixtape.
- mudspate — mudflow.
- neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
- paeanism — the show of a paean
- paramese — a note in ancient Greek music, the note above the mese
- parmesan — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
- passmore — George. Born 1943, a British artist who is noted esp for his photomontages and performance works with Gilbert Proesch
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- permease — any of the proteins that mediate the transport of various molecules across biological membranes.
- pessimal — /pes'im-l/ (Latin-based antonym for "optimal") Maximally bad. "This is a pessimal situation." Also "pessimise" To make as bad as possible. These words are the obvious Latin-based antonyms for "optimal" and "optimise", but for some reason they do not appear in most English dictionaries, although "pessimise" is listed in the OED.
- petalism — a form of expulsion that typically lasted for five years and was dealt to those who were seen to have treacherous aspirations and objectives and was carried out in Syracuse in Ancient Greece
- plateasm — the practice of talking with the mouth open too wide
- pleonasm — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- postgame — of, relating to, or happening in the period immediately following a sports game: Join us for the postgame wrap-up. Fans lost control in a postgame melee.
- pressman — a person who operates or has charge of a printing press.
- prestamp — to stamp in advance
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- proseman — a writer of prose
- psammite — any sandstone.
- resample — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- 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.
- samplery — the making of samplers
- sapremia — blood poisoning caused by the toxins produced by bacterial putrefaction, as in gangrene.
- sea palm — a kelp, Postelsia palmaeformis, of the Pacific coast of North America, that resembles a miniature palm tree.
- septimal — of or based on the number seven.
- serapeum — a place, as a burial site, building, or group of buildings, dedicated to Serapis.
- seraphim — a plural of seraph.
- sheepman — a person engaged in the tending or breeding of sheep, especially the owner of a sheep ranch.
- shipmate — a person who serves with another on the same vessel.
- site map — A site map is a plan of a website showing what is on it and providing links to the different sections.
- soupmeat — beef used for making soup stock.
- spaceman — an astronaut.
- spademan — a man who works with spade
- spearman — a person who is armed with or uses a spear.
- specmark — (benchmark) The average of a set of floating-point and integer SPEC benchmark results. While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with the industry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* defined an average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the 1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons: With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92) benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward floating-point. Customers' workloads are different, some integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed. Current processors have developed their strengths in a more diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some more floating-point performance) than in 1989. Some SPECmark results are available here. See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92, SPECrate_fp92.
- spellman — Francis Joseph, Cardinal, 1889–1967, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: archbishop of New York 1939–67.
- spermary — an organ in which spermatozoa are generated; testis.
- spumante — Italian. any sparkling wine.
- stampede — a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.