8-letter words containing s, i, m, o
- mariposa — any lily of the genus Calochortus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having tuliplike flowers of various colors.
- masaccio — (Tommaso Guidi) 1401–28? Italian painter.
- masoning — Present participle of mason.
- masonite — A type of hardboard formed using wooden chips and blasting them into long fibers with steam and then forming them into boards.
- massicot — monoxide of lead, PbO, in the form of a yellow powder, used as a pigment and drier.
- mastoids — of or relating to the mastoid process.
- masvingo — a city in S central Zimbabwe.
- mcintosh — a variety of red apple that ripens in early autumn.
- medusoid — a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
- melilots — Plural form of melilot.
- melitose — raffinose.
- melodics — the branch of musical science concerned with the pitch and succession of tones.
- melodies — a female given name.
- melodise — to make melodious.
- melodist — a composer or a singer of melodies.
- memories — the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
- memorise — to commit to memory; learn by heart: to memorize a poem.
- memorist — a person who has a remarkably retentive memory.
- mentions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mention.
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- mesolite — a mineral variety of the zeolite group, intermediate in chemical composition between natrolite and scolecite.
- mesozoic — noting or pertaining to an era occurring between 230 and 65 million years ago, characterized by the appearance of flowering plants and by the appearance and extinction of dinosaurs.
- messidor — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the tenth month of the year, extending from June 19 to July 18.
- mestizos — Plural form of mestizo.
- metopism — a congenital disfigurement of the forehead in which the frontal suture, which normally undergoes closure during childhood, persists
- miasmous — miasmal
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- microbus — minibus.
- midstory — the layer of vegetation in a forest that consists of those trees whose height is in between the heights of the smallest and tallest trees
- milepost — any of a series of posts set up to mark distance by miles, as along a highway, or an individual post showing the distance to or from a place.
- milesimo — one thousandth
- milfoils — Plural form of milfoil.
- milksops — Plural form of milksop.
- millions — a cardinal number, a thousand times one thousand.
- miniboss — (video games) A minor or incidental boss in a video game.
- miradors — Plural form of mirador.
- misallot — to allot wrongly
- misatone — to atone wrongly or improperly
- misbegot — Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin.
- miscoded — to code mistakenly, as in data processing.
- miscolor — to give a wrong color to.
- miscount — an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- misdoing — A misdeed.
- misdoubt — doubt or suspicion.
- misenrol — to enrol inaccurately or wrongly
- misfocus — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- mishmosh — a confused mess; hodgepodge; jumble.
- misknown — Past participle of misknow.
- misknows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misknow.
- misletoe — Archaic form of mistletoe.