8-letter words containing s, i, m, p
- silphium — an American flowering wild plant of the family Asteraceae
- simpered — to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.
- simples! — an expression used to suggest that something can be done or understood with no difficulty
- simplest — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- simplify — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- simplism — exaggerated simplicity, as in concentrating on a single aspect or factor of a problem or situation while disregarding others; oversimplification: The senator is given to simplism in dealing with international issues.
- simplist — a herbalist
- simpulum — an ancient dipper having the rim of the bowl at right angles to the handle.
- sinapism — mustard plaster.
- site map — A site map is a plan of a website showing what is on it and providing links to the different sections.
- ski jump — a snow-covered chute or slide at the side of a hill or built up on top of the hill, the base of the chute having a horizontal ramp that enables a skier to speed down the chute, take off at the end of the ramp, and land further down the hill.
- skimpily — lacking in size, fullness, etc.; scanty: a skimpy hem; a skimpy dinner.
- slipform — a moveable mould for building large concrete structures such as roads, towers and bridges
- slumping — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
- spamming — (lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively): Install spam blocker software and keep your email spam filters updated to protect your accounts from unsolicited spam.
- specimen — a part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass or number; a typical animal, plant, mineral, part, etc.
- spermine — a polyamine, H 2 N(CH 2) 3 NH(CH 2) 4 NH(CH 2) 3 NH 2 , formed from spermidine and occurring in all cells, especially prevalent in semen, sputum, pancreatic tissue, and certain yeasts.
- sphygmic — of or relating to the pulse.
- spiculum — a small, needlelike body, part, process, or the like.
- spimming — a type of spam that is sent by means of instant messaging.
- splenium — a structure in the brain
- stumpily — in a stumpy manner
- stumping — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
- subprime — being of less than top quality: a subprime grade of steel.
- sump oil — the waste oil from engines
- sumphish — stupid, sulky
- swamping — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
- symphile — an insect or other organism that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants and termites, and is fed and reared by the inmates
- sympodia — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
- timepass — a way of passing the time
- timespan — a span of time; time frame.
- tompkins — Daniel D. 1774–1825, U.S. politician and jurist: vice president of the U.S. 1817–25.
- trumpism — the policies advocated by Donald Trump, especially those involving a rejection of the current political establishment and the vigorous pursuit of American national interests
- vampires — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vax mips — (benchmark) (Or VAX Unit of Performance, VUP) The processing power normally attributed to a Digital Equipment Corporation VAX 11/780. Future VAX systems were rated according to this scale (e.g. VAX 8350's being 2.7 VUPs per CPU). A MicroVAX II is normally associated with 0.9 VUPs and at a later time the MicroVUP was coined to rate VAX workstations. The use of the VUP by Digital Equipment Corporation has been replaced with more standard benchmarks (SPECint and SPECfp) in the DEC Alpha processor systems.
- whimpers — Plural form of whimper.
- wimpiest — of, relating to, or characteristic of a wimp.