8-letter words containing s, m, a, l
- scramble — to climb or move quickly using one's hands and feet, as down a rough incline.
- scybalum — hard faeces in the intestine
- sea mile — nautical mile.
- sea palm — a kelp, Postelsia palmaeformis, of the Pacific coast of North America, that resembles a miniature palm tree.
- seamless — having no seams: seamless stockings.
- seamlike — like or resembling a seam
- selamlik — the portion of a Turkish palace or house reserved for men.
- selfsame — being the very same; identical.
- semblant — semblance
- semibald — partly bald
- semigala — an event similar to a gala but on a lesser scale; an occasion that is festive but not to the degree of a gala
- semioval — shaped like half of an oval
- semolina — a granular, milled product of durum wheat, consisting almost entirely of endosperm particles, used chiefly in the making of pasta.
- septimal — of or based on the number seven.
- shambled — to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.
- shambles — a shambling gait.
- shameful — causing shame: shameful behavior.
- she-male — a male-to-female transsexual
- shlimazl — schlimazel.
- silliman — Benjamin, 1779–1864, U.S. scientist and educator.
- 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.
- slalomer — a person who slaloms
- slamming — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- slot man — copyeditor (def 3).
- small ad — The small ads in a newspaper are short advertisements in which you can advertise something such as an object for sale or a room to let.
- smallage — the celery, Apium graveolens, especially in its wild state.
- smallboy — the steward's assistant or deputy steward in European households in W Africa
- smallens — Alexander, 1889–1972, U.S. orchestra conductor, born in Russia.
- smallest — of limited size; of comparatively restricted dimensions; not big; little: a small box.
- smallish — rather small.
- smallpox — an acute, highly contagious, febrile disease, caused by the variola virus, and characterized by a pustular eruption that often leaves permanent pits or scars: eradicated worldwide by vaccination programs.
- smallsat — a small communications satellite
- smallvdm — (tool)
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- smaltite — a mineral, originally thought to have been a diarsenide of cobalt, CoAs 2 , but which is actually a skutterudite rich in cobalt.
- smarmily — excessively or unctuously flattering, ingratiating, servile, etc.: the emcee with the smarmy welcome.
- smokable — suitable for being smoked.
- solarism — the interpretation of myths by reference to the sun, especially such interpretation carried to an extreme.
- 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.
- solimena — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1657–1747, Italian painter.
- solo man — an early human being of the upper Pleistocene, known from skull fragments found in Java.
- somalian — an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Capital: Mogadishu.
- somedeal — somewhat.
- soralium — (in a lichen) a group of soredia.
- soulmate — a person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes, and often a romantic bond: I married my soul mate; you don't get much luckier than that.
- spellman — Francis Joseph, Cardinal, 1889–1967, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: archbishop of New York 1939–67.
- st. malo — a fortified seaport in NW France, on the Gulf of St. Malo: resort; surrendered by German forces August 1944.