8-letter words containing s, m
- bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
- bluestem — a name applied to a number of North American prairie grasses
- boatsman — boatman.
- bog moss — peat moss.
- bogeyism — the recognition of or belief in the existence of ghosts or demons
- bogomips — (unit) (From "bogus", "MIPS") The timing unit of the Linux kernel. A BogoMips is an unscientific measurement of processor speed made by the Linux kernel when it boots, to calibrate an internal busy-loop.
- bombesin — a hormone partly responsible for regulating appetite
- bombsite — an area where the buildings have been destroyed by bombs
- bondsman — a person bound by bond to act as surety for another
- bondsmen — a person who by bond becomes surety for another.
- bontemps — Arna Wendell [ahr-nuh] /ˈɑr nə/ (Show IPA), 1902–73, U.S. author.
- boobyism — the quality of being boobyish
- boresome — boring or uninteresting
- botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
- bovarism — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- boyarism — the rule of the boyars
- brahmins — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- buddhism — Buddhism is a religion which teaches that the way to end suffering is by overcoming your desires.
- bullyism — the belief in systematic bullying
- bum-rush — to force one's way into; crash: to bum-rush a rap concert.
- bumblers — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
- burramys — the very rare mountain pigmy possum, Burramys parvus, of Australia. It is about the size of a rat and restricted in habitat to very high altitudes, mainly Mt Hotham, Victoria. Until 1966 it was known only as a fossil
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- byronism — of or relating to Lord Byron.
- c-scheme — MIT Scheme
- cabalism — a mystical philosophical doctrine based on the doctrines of the cabala
- caffeism — a morbid condition caused by excessive caffeine intake
- callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.
- calmness — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
- calumets — Plural form of calumet.
- camassia — Any of the genus Camassia of flowering plants, the camases.
- cambists — Plural form of cambist.
- cambiums — Plural form of cambium.
- camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen
- cambyses — died ?522 bc, king of Persia (529–?522 bc), who conquered Egypt (525); son of Cyrus the Great
- camelids — Plural form of camelid.
- camelish — similar to a camel
- camisado — (formerly) an attack made under cover of darkness
- camisard — any French Protestant, living in the region of the Cévennes Mountains, who carried on a revolt against Louis XIV in the early part of the 18th century.
- camisole — A camisole is a short piece of clothing that women wear on the top half of their bodies underneath a shirt or blouse, for example.
- campiest — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- campinas — a city in SE Brazil, in São Paulo state: centre of a rich agricultural region, producing esp coffee. Pop: 2 640 000 (2005 est)
- campions — Plural form of campion.
- campness — the quality of being camp
- campshed — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- campshot — a facing of planks and piles placed along the bank of a river to prevent erosion.
- campsite — A campsite is a place where people who are on holiday can stay in tents.
- campus's — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- campuses — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.