7-letter words containing s, i, m, o
- motives — Plural form of motive.
- moujiks — Plural form of moujik.
- moulins — a river flowing N from S France to the Loire. About 250 miles (400 km) long.
- mousily — In a mousy manner.
- mousing — a wrapping of several turns of small stuff around the shank end of a hook.
- movings — Plural form of moving.
- mozzies — Plural form of mozzie.
- muscoid — a moss-like plant
- musimon — Alternative form of mouflon.
- mycosis — the presence of parasitic fungi in or on any part of the body.
- nimious — great, extravagant, considerable
- nimrods — Plural form of nimrod.
- noisome — offensive or disgusting, as an odor.
- obelism — the practice of marking or adding comments on passages in a text
- ogreism — an occurrence of behaviour characteristic of an ogre
- ominous — portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
- omnibus — bus1 (def 1).
- onanism — withdrawal of the penis in sexual intercourse so that ejaculation takes place outside the vagina; coitus interruptus.
- oralism — the theory, practice, or advocacy of education for the deaf chiefly or exclusively through lipreading, training in speech production, and training of residual hearing.
- orphism — the religious or philosophical system of the Orphic school.
- osman i — 1259–1326, Turkish sultan; founder of the Ottoman Empire
- osmanli — an Ottoman.
- osmatic — of or relating to the sense of smell.
- osmious — of or containing osmium in its lower valences.
- osmosis — Physical Chemistry, Cell Biology. the tendency of a fluid, usually water, to pass through a semipermeable membrane into a solution where the solvent concentration is higher, thus equalizing the concentrations of materials on either side of the membrane. the diffusion of fluids through membranes or porous partitions. Compare endosmosis, exosmosis.
- osmotic — Physical Chemistry, Cell Biology. the tendency of a fluid, usually water, to pass through a semipermeable membrane into a solution where the solvent concentration is higher, thus equalizing the concentrations of materials on either side of the membrane. the diffusion of fluids through membranes or porous partitions. Compare endosmosis, exosmosis.
- outswim — (transitive) To swim faster than.
- owenism — the socialistic philosophy of Robert Owen.
- phlomis — a plant that belongs to the genus Phlomis and family Labiatae or Lamiaceae
- photism — a form of synesthesia in which a visual sensation, as of color or form, is produced by the sense of touch, hearing, etc.
- promise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- rimshot — the deliberate simultaneous striking of the head and the rim of a drum
- romains — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Louis Farigoule) 1885–1972, French novelist, poet, and dramatist.
- rompish — given to romping; frolicsome.
- roomies — roommate.
- sampaio — Jorge, 1939–2010, president of Portugal 1996–2006.
- scotism — the set of doctrines of Duns Scotus.
- seismo- — earthquake
- semeion — a unit of meter or time in ancient poetry
- semilog — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- semipro — semiprofessional
- sigmoid — shaped like the letter C.
- simenon — Georges (Joseph Christian) [zhawrzh zhoh-zef krees-tyan] /ʒɔrʒ ʒoʊˈzɛf krisˈtyɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1903–1989, French writer of detective novels, born in Belgium.
- similor — an alloy used in the manufacture of cheap jewellery
- simioid — resembling the ape
- simious — pertaining to or characteristic of apes or monkeys; simian.
- simonov — Konstantin M [kuh n-stuhn-tyeen] /kən stʌnˈtyin/ (Show IPA), 1915–79, Russian journalist and playwright.
- simplon — a mountain pass in S Switzerland, in the Lepontine Alps: crossed by a carriage road constructed 1800–06 on Napoleon's orders. 6592 feet (2010 meters) high.
- simpson — James Young, 1811–70, Scottish professor of obstetrics and obstetrician: pioneer in use of ether and chloroform as anesthetics.
- smokies — Great Smoky Mountains