8-letter words containing s, i, m, u
- puseyism — Tractarianism.
- qualmish — tending to have, or having, qualms.
- quietism — a form of religious mysticism taught by Molinos, a Spanish priest, in the latter part of the 17th century, requiring extinction of the will, withdrawal from worldly interests, and passive meditation on God and divine things; Molinism.
- residuum — the residue, remainder, or rest of something.
- resubmit — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- resuming — to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue: to resume a journey.
- rimouski — a city in SE Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence River.
- rosarium — a rose garden.
- ruralism — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- samarium — a rare-earth metallic element discovered in samarskite. Symbol: Sm; atomic weight: 150.35; atomic number: 62; specific gravity: 7.49.
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- scholium — Often, scholia. an explanatory note or comment. an ancient annotation upon a passage in a Greek or Latin text.
- scrinium — a cylindrical container used in ancient Rome to hold papyrus rolls.
- scumfish — to disgust or to stifle
- scummily — in a scummy manner
- selenium — a nonmetallic element chemically resembling sulfur and tellurium, occurring in several allotropic forms, as crystalline and amorphous, and having an electrical resistance that varies under the influence of light. Symbol: Se; atomic weight: 78.96; atomic number: 34; specific gravity: (gray) 4.80 at 25°C, (red) 4.50 at 25°C.
- semibull — a bull or official document issued by the pope after his election but before his coronation
- semilune — a half-moon shape
- semimute — a person who is semi-mute
- semimute — a person who is semi-mute
- seminude — naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- septimus — a male given name.
- silicium — silicon.
- silphium — an American flowering wild plant of the family Asteraceae
- simpulum — an ancient dipper having the rim of the bowl at right angles to the handle.
- simsbury — a town in central Connecticut.
- simula i — (language) SIMUlation LAnguage. An extension to ALGOL 60 for the Univac 1107 designed in 1962 by Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl and implemented in 1964. SIMULA I was designed for discrete simulation. It introduced the record class, leading the way to data abstraction and object-oriented programming languages like Smalltalk. It also featured coroutines. SIMULA's philosophy was the result of addressing the problems of describing complex systems for the purpose of simulating them. This philosophy proved to be applicable for describing complex systems generally (not just for simulation) and so SIMULA is a general-purpose object-oriented application programming language which also has very good discrete event simulation capability. Virtually all OOP products are derived in some manner from SIMULA. For a description of the evolution of SIMULA and therefore the fundamental concepts of OOP, see Dahl and Nygaard in ["History of Programming Languages". Ed. R. W. Wexelblat. Addison-Wesley, 1981].
- simulant — simulating; feigning; imitating.
- simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- simulium — a blood-sucking, tropical fly of the genus Simulium
- 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.
- slumming — Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- slumping — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- smileful — full of smiles
- smudging — a dirty mark or smear.
- smurfing — the activity of using a specially designed computer program to attack a computer network by flooding it with messages, thereby rendering it inoperable
- solarium — a glass-enclosed room, porch, or the like, exposed to the sun's rays, as at a seaside hotel or for convalescents in a hospital.
- solatium — something given in compensation for inconvenience, loss, injury, or the like; recompense.
- soralium — (in a lichen) a group of soredia.
- soredium — a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- spiculum — a small, needlelike body, part, process, or the like.
- splenium — a structure in the brain
- squamish — a member of a North American Indian people of the southwestern coast of British Columbia.
- squirmed — to wriggle or writhe.
- stimulus — something that incites to action or exertion or quickens action, feeling, thought, etc.: The approval of others is a potent stimulus.
- striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter in the brain which controls movement and balance
- stuckism — a British art movement, founded in 1999 by Billy Childish (born 1959) and Charles Thomson (born 1953) to advance new figurative painting (as opposed to conceptual art)
- 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.