7-letter words containing s, i, m, n
- smidgen — a very small amount: a smidgen of jam for your toast.
- smiting — to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon: She smote him on the back with her umbrella.
- smitten — struck, as with a hard blow.
- smoking — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
- soliman — Suleiman I.
- somnial — relating to dreams
- spumoni — an Italian style of ice cream of a very fine and smooth texture, usually containing layers of various colors and flavors and chopped fruit or nuts.
- stamina — a plural of stamen.
- steinem — Gloria, born 1934, U.S. women's-rights activist, journalist, and editor.
- stimson — Henry L(ewis) 1867–1950, U.S. statesman: secretary of war 1911–13, 1940–45; secretary of state 1929–33.
- strimon — Struma
- suramin — a drug used to treat trypanosomiasis
- surinam — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- timmins — a city in E Ontario, in S Canada: gold-mining center.
- tsunami — an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- unixism — (operating system, jargon) A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected multitasking environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that exists on virtual-memory Unix systems. Common Unixisms include: gratuitous use of "fork"; the assumption that certain undocumented but well-known features of Unix libraries such as "stdio" are supported elsewhere; reliance on obscure side-effects of system calls (use of "sleep" with a 0 argument to tell the scheduler that you're willing to give up your time-slice, for example); the assumption that freshly allocated memory is zeroed; and the assumption that fragmentation problems won't arise from never freeing memory. Compare vaxocentrism. See also New Jersey.
- visnomy — a method of judging character from facial features
- winsome — sweetly or innocently charming; winning; engaging: a winsome smile.
- wiseman — Nicholas Patrick Stephen, 1802–65, Irish cardinal and author, born in Spain.
- zanyism — (archaic) clownishness; buffoonery.
- zionism — a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel.