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10-letter words containing sm

  • bismuthous — of or containing bismuth in the trivalent state
  • blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
  • blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
  • boehmenism — the mystical doctrines or conceptions of Jakob Böhme.
  • bolshevism — Bolshevism is the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  • boosterism — the practice of actively promoting a city, region, etc, and its local businesses
  • boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
  • bourbonism — support for the rule of the Bourbons, the European royal line that ruled in France, Spain, and Naples and Sicily at various times in the late 16th to early 20th centuries
  • bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
  • brahmanism — the religious and social system of orthodox Hinduism, characterized by diversified pantheism, the caste system, and the sacrifices and family ceremonies of Hindu tradition
  • brahminism — Brahmanism
  • bridesmaid — A bridesmaid is a woman or a girl who helps and accompanies a bride on her wedding day.
  • britishism — Briticism
  • buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
  • bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
  • caffeinism — caffeism
  • cameralism — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
  • candaulism — A practice or in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their pleasure.
  • cape smoke — South African brandy
  • capitalism — Capitalism is an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are owned by private individuals and not by the state.
  • castratism — The practice of prepubescently castrating male humans as to preserve their alto or soprano voices.
  • catabolism — a metabolic process in which complex molecules are broken down into simple ones with the release of energy; destructive metabolism
  • cataclysms — Plural form of cataclysm.
  • cataplasms — Plural form of cataplasm.
  • catechisms — Plural form of catechism.
  • centralism — Centralism is a way of governing a country, or organizing something such as industry, education, or politics, which involves having one central group of people who give instructions to everyone else.
  • charismata — Theology. a divinely conferred gift or power.
  • chasmogamy — the production of flowers that open, so as to expose the reproductive organs and allow cross-pollination
  • chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
  • chiasmatic — relating to the intersection of the optic nerve fibres at the bottom of the brain
  • chicanismo — pride in one's heritage as a Mexican-American.
  • chimaerism — the insertion of cells of a different genetic make-up into a fetus or embryo
  • chloralism — a medical condition created by prolonged use of chloral hydrate
  • chromatism — chromatic aberration
  • churnalism — a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research, esp as a result of an increased demand for news content
  • cicisbeism — the practice of admiring a married woman
  • cinchonism — a condition resulting from an excessive dose of cinchona bark or its alkaloids, characterized chiefly by headache, ringing in the ears, and vomiting
  • cismontane — on this (the writer's or speaker's) side of the mountains, esp the Alps
  • classicism — Classicism is a style of art practised especially in the 18th century in Europe. It has simple regular forms and the artist does not attempt to express strong emotions.
  • classmates — Plural form of classmate.
  • cockneyism — a characteristic of speech or custom peculiar to cockneys
  • conacreism — the Irish system of letting farming land for a season or for eleven months
  • concettism — the use of concetti in writing
  • conclavism — a minority movement (and the beliefs of certain Traditionalist Catholics) that rejects the authority of the established pope and instead supports an alternative pope
  • concretism — the practice of representing abstract concepts in concrete terms
  • conformism — the tendency to adopt the attitudes, behaviour, dress, etc, of the group to which one belongs
  • consortism — symbiosis
  • convictism — the system of establishing a settlement, esp in Australia, and then transporting convicts to this settlement for confinement
  • cosmetical — relating to cosmetics
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