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Words ending with oism

5 letter words ending with oism

  • foism — Chinese Buddhism.
  • moism — the religious and ethical teaching of Mo-Zi and his followers, emphasizing universal love, ascetic self-discipline, and obedience to the will of Heaven
  • zoism — a reverence for animal life or a belief in magical animal powers

6 letter words ending with oism

  • egoism — An ethical theory that treats self-interest as the foundation of morality.
  • maoism — the political, social, economic, and military theories and policies advocated by Mao Zedong, as those concerning revolutionary movements and guerrilla warfare.
  • taoism — the philosophical system evolved by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu, advocating a life of complete simplicity and naturalness and of noninterference with the course of natural events, in order to attain a happy existence in harmony with the Tao.

7 letter words ending with oism

  • dodoism — any of several clumsy, flightless, extinct birds of the genera Raphus and Pezophaps, related to pigeons but about the size of a turkey, formerly inhabiting the islands of Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodriguez.
  • echoism — onomatopoeia.
  • heroism — the qualities or attributes of a hero or heroine: He showed great heroism in battle.
  • hoboism — The lifestyle or practices of hobos; vagrancy.
  • locoism — a disease chiefly of sheep, horses, and cattle, caused by the eating of locoweed and characterized by weakness, impaired vision, irregular behavior, and paralysis.

8 letter words ending with oism

  • jingoism — the spirit, policy, or practice of jingoes; bellicose chauvinism.
  • machoism — having or characterized by qualities considered manly, especially when manifested in an assertive, self-conscious, or dominating way.
  • negroism — the doctrine or advocacy of equal rights for black people.
  • yahooism — The behaviour or attitudes of yahoos; ignorant boorishness.

9 letter words ending with oism

  • albinoism — Congenital lack of melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); the condition of being albino.
  • averroism — the teachings of Averroës
  • castroism — the philosophy and policies of Fidel Castro and his followers
  • dichroism — a property of a uniaxial crystal, such as tourmaline, of showing a perceptible difference in colour when viewed along two different axes in transmitted white light
  • hindooism — the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions.

10 letter words ending with oism

  • hidalgoism — the position or practice of a hidalgo
  • lysenkoism — a genetic doctrine formulated by Lysenko and asserting that acquired characteristics are inheritable.
  • trichroism — pleochroism of a biaxial crystal such that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions under transmitted light.

11 letter words ending with oism

  • antiheroism — (literature) The quality of being an antihero.
  • locofocoism — the doctrines of the Locofocos.
  • pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
  • polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours

13 letter words ending with oism

  • xanthochroism — a condition in certain animals, esp aquarium goldfish, in which all skin pigments other than yellow and orange disappear

On this page, we collect all words that ending in OISM. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 35 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that ends in OISM that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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