8-letter words containing s, i, m, p
- populism — the political philosophy of the People's party.
- posticum — epinaos.
- postmill — a windmill with machinery mounted on a frame that turns in its entirety to face the wind.
- 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.
- priapism — Pathology. continuous, usually nonsexual erection of the penis, especially due to disease.
- priggism — priggish character or ideas; priggishness.
- 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.
- primrosy — characteristic of, or resembling, a primrose (esp in colour)
- prismoid — a solid having sides that are trapezoids and bases or ends that are parallel and similar but not congruent polygons. Compare prism (def 2).
- 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.
- promisor — a person who makes a promise.
- prosaism — prosaic character or style.
- psalmist — an author of psalms.
- psammite — any sandstone.
- psellism — Pathology. stuttering; stammering.
- psephism — (in ancient Athens) a proposition adopted by a majority vote in the public assembly
- psychism — the belief in a universal soul; the attributing of souls to inanimate objects or phenomena
- psyllium — fleawort.
- ptyalism — excessive secretion of saliva.
- pugilism — the art or practice of fighting with the fists; boxing.
- puppyism — impudence
- puseyism — Tractarianism.
- pygmyish — resembling a pygmy
- pygmyism — the state of being a pygmy
- pyramids — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- reimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- 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.
- sampling — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- sapphism — lesbianism.
- sapremia — blood poisoning caused by the toxins produced by bacterial putrefaction, as in gangrene.
- scamping — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- scampish — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- scrimper — a person who scrimps
- scrimpit — ungenerous
- scrimply — sparingly
- semiopen — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- semplice — to be performed in a simple manner
- sepiment — a hedge or fence that acts as a dividing line
- septimal — of or based on the number seven.
- septimus — a male given name.
- seraphim — a plural of seraph.
- shipmate — a person who serves with another on the same vessel.
- shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- shipworm — any of various wormlike marine bivalve mollusks that burrow into the timbers of ship, wharves, etc.
- shrimper — a shrimp fisherman.