8-letter words containing s, m, i, d
- monadism — the doctrine of monads as ultimate units of being.
- monodies — Plural form of monody.
- monodist — The writer of a monody.
- moodiest — given to gloomy, depressed, or sullen moods; ill-humored.
- mortised — a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- muddiest — Superlative form of muddy.
- mudsills — Plural form of mudsill.
- mudslide — mudflow.
- muishond — A species of weasel found in southern Africa, Poecilogale albinucha.
- muscadin — a person with monarchical sympathies during the French Revolution, especially from 1794 to 1796.
- muslined — draped or covered with muslin
- mustelid — any of numerous carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, comprising the weasels, martens, skunks, badgers, and otters.
- naderism — the philosophy and beliefs of consumerism and environmentalism preached by Ralph Nader
- nomadism — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- nudism's — the practice of going nude, especially in places that allow sexually mixed groups, in the belief that such practice benefits health.
- ophidism — Poisoning by snake venom.
- paludism — malaria.
- plasmoid — a section of a plasma having a characteristic shape
- premised — Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- 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.
- 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.
- ram disk — (operating system, storage) A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off.
- red mist — a feeling of extreme anger that clouds one's judgment temporarily
- residuum — the residue, remainder, or rest of something.
- rowdyism — rough, disorderly behavior.
- salmonid — belonging or pertaining to the family Salmonidae, including the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes.
- samizdat — a clandestine publishing system within the Soviet Union, by which forbidden or unpublishable literature was reproduced and circulated privately.
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- scombrid — any fish of the family Scombridae, comprising the mackerels and tunas.
- sea-maid — a mermaid.
- sediment — the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs.
- seedtime — the season for sowing seed.
- semi-god — the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.
- semiarid — characterized by very little annual rainfall, usually from 10 to 20 inches (25 to 50 cm): the struggle to raise vegetables in semiarid regions.
- semibald — partly bald
- semibold — denoting a weight of typeface between medium and bold face
- semideaf — partly deaf
- semidome — half a dome, especially as formed by a vertical section, as over a semicircular apse.
- semihard — partly hard; not completely hard
- semimild — somewhat mild; quite mild
- seminude — naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
- semiwild — not fully domesticated; partially tamed or cultivated; having some characteristics of the wild
- semiwild — not fully domesticated; partially tamed or cultivated; having some characteristics of the wild
- sesamoid — shaped like a sesame seed, as certain small nodular bones and cartilages.
- sheikdom — the land or territory under the control of a sheik.
- shimmied — an American ragtime dance marked by shaking of the hips and shoulders.
- side arm — a weapon, as a pistol or sword, carried at the side or in the belt.
- sidesman — a man elected to help the parish church warden