8-letter words containing s, i, e, m
- premiers — the winners of a premiership
- premised — Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- premises — Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primness — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- primrose — Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of.
- promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- promisee — a person to whom a promise is made.
- psammite — any sandstone.
- psellism — Pathology. stuttering; stammering.
- psephism — (in ancient Athens) a proposition adopted by a majority vote in the public assembly
- puseyism — Tractarianism.
- quietism — a form of religious mysticism taught by Molinos, a Spanish priest, in the latter part of the 17th century, requiring extinction of the will, withdrawal from worldly interests, and passive meditation on God and divine things; Molinism.
- 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.
- ramses i — 1324?–1258 b.c, king of ancient Egypt.
- realisms — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- red mist — a feeling of extreme anger that clouds one's judgment temporarily
- regalism — the principle that royalty have the highest power, esp when referring to church affairs
- reimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- reinsman — a person who rides or drives horses, especially a skillful one, as a jockey or harness driver.
- residuum — the residue, remainder, or rest of something.
- resubmit — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- resuming — to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue: to resume a journey.
- ribosome — a tiny, somewhat mitten-shaped organelle occurring in great numbers in the cell cytoplasm either freely, in small clusters, or attached to the outer surfaces of endoplasmic reticula, and functioning as the site of protein manufacture.
- rimester — a writer of inferior verse; poetaster.
- 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.
- 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.
- sapremia — blood poisoning caused by the toxins produced by bacterial putrefaction, as in gangrene.
- scheming — given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- schimmel — a roan-coloured horse
- schirmer — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1829–93, born in Germany, and his sons Rudolph Edward, 1859–1919, and Gustave, 1864–1907, U.S. music publishers.
- scrimper — a person who scrimps
- sea mile — nautical mile.
- sea mist — a mist over or from the sea.
- sea-maid — a mermaid.
- seamlike — like or resembling a seam
- sediment — the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs.
- seedtime — the season for sowing seed.
- seismism — the natural activity or group of phenomena associated with earthquakes.
- selamlik — the portion of a Turkish palace or house reserved for men.
- selenium — a nonmetallic element chemically resembling sulfur and tellurium, occurring in several allotropic forms, as crystalline and amorphous, and having an electrical resistance that varies under the influence of light. Symbol: Se; atomic weight: 78.96; atomic number: 34; specific gravity: (gray) 4.80 at 25°C, (red) 4.50 at 25°C.
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semi-god — the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.
- 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.
- semibald — partly bald
- semibold — denoting a weight of typeface between medium and bold face
- semibull — a bull or official document issued by the pope after his election but before his coronation